The Scopes Trial, sometimes known as the "Scopes monkey trial," took place in Tennessee in 1925. It was engineered as a challenge to the state's Butler Act which prohibited public schools from teaching the theory that man had evolved from more primitive life forms. The willing defendant, John Scopes, was duly convicted, although this was later overturned on a technicality. The trial gained notoriety after it was dramatized for both stage (1955) and screen (1960). Titled Inherit the Wind, both dramatizations distorted the facts of the case and were promoted to harm Christianity. The highlight of the trial was when Clarence Darrow agreed to testify as a witness if William Jennings Bryan would also testify. First Bryan testified before a huge crowd, but when Darrow's turn came he instead rene