Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the Scopes monkey trial in July 1925, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo, File) Black and white ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

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Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial. Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the Dayton, Tenn., courthouse in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People gathered Friday to honor famed Hyde Park attorney Clarence Darrow on the 78th anniversary of the death. Flowers were tossed this morning off the Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park.

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...