jennings bryant goes down there to work with the prosecution. a footnote to this is one of the preachers in fact the man probably most responsible for getting william jennings bryant to go to dayton was j. frank norris. one of the last things that bryant did before he died just a few days after that trial was write a handwritten note to j. frank norris thank him for his help, for his encouragement and going to the trial. and doors open at handwritten note after he'd gotten his that william jennings bryant had died. he printed a note in his newspaper which at that time of 50,000 subscribers. and used this way to link himself and his go very much was to become the heir to william jennings bryan, become the leader of the fundamentals are what we might call conservative christians in america at the time. and everyone might have happened except that within a year he got into a battle with local city leaders in fort worth, texas. he's always fighting about something. the particular issue this time had to give with taxes. is a very interesting little story because first baptist church in fort worth owned a tremendous part of a downtown block on anti-downt

the lawyers were clarence dare row and william jennings bryan. william jennings bryant has a presidential candidate. he was a gifted orator, and he was a hero of the little people. they called him the great commoner. by the middle of the 1920s, he is in his 60s and has been relegated to an eye side role in democratic party politics and becomes the leader of this movement called fundamentalism, and the apex is when the big trial took place in tennessee, and of course william jennings bryan goes down the to work with the prosecution. a footnote to this is that one of the preachers, in fact the man probably most responsible for getting william jennings bryan to go to tennessee was j. frank norris, and one of the things bryan did before he died was write a hand written note to j. frank norris, thanking him for his help, his encouragement in going to the trial, and norris opened that handwritten over in after he had gotten the news that william jennings bryan tied, and the printed the note in his newspaper, which at the time had 50,000 subscribers, and his goal very much was

hostile apostle judged darrell called the lead prosecutor three-time presidential candidate williams jennings bryant to the stand and of course their fabled class was immortalized in inherit the wind. when the monkey trial was over however darrow was the most famous lawyer in the world. he was 68, short on money and yearning for retirement and about health. he could've commanded huge bees on wall street are represented rich divorcees in chicago and instead and i think this really indicates is true glory he took the case of ossian suite and african-american position and moved into a white neighborhood in detroit. baby have seen the pictures. was a summer the klan march down pennsylvania avenue with their hoods and their cloaks. thousands of them and in detroit at mab -- mob gathered breaking the windows and threatening its inhabitants. sweet's family and friends of move up up and in they fired into the crowd killing one man and injuring another on a september night in 1925. darrow went to detroit and a token fee raise by the naacp. he won the case and was staggered by heart attack in the summer of 19