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mods: Monkey trial American experience (Television program) Lesiak, Christine screenwriter, producer, director. Mumgaard, Annie producer, director. Hunt, Linda 1945- narrator. Reed, Eloise commentator. Johnson, Phillip commentator. Larson, Edward commentator. Levine, Lawrence W. commentator. Strossen, Nadine commentator. Williams, John commentator. McKenzie, Jim commentator. Boyer, Paul S. commentator. Numbers, Ronald L. commentator. Tierney, Kevin commentator. Scott, Eugenie Carol 1945- commentator. McKenzie, Ben commentator. Moscu, Alexandru editor of moving image work. Moore, Allen cinematographer. Larson, Tom composer. Nebraska Educational Television Network WGBH Educational Foundation WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) PBS Home Video moving image videorecording Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentary television programs. History. Nonfiction television programs. Trials, litigation, etc. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. mau 2006 monographic eng videodisc 1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the 20th century, a debate over free speech that spiraled into an all-out duel between science and religion. Featuring two of the century's greatest orators, attorneys Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, the Scopes trial was America's first major media event, with hundreds of reporters and live nationwide radio coverage dispersing the sensational news. Outside the courthouse, a circus atmosphere prevailed as a chimpanzee in a suit and hat vied with fire-and-brimstone preachers for the crowd's attention. This film explores the dramatic moment when a new fault line opened in society as scientific discoveries began to challenge the literal trut…