Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. October 1910: The bombed-out Los Angeles Times building. (Los Angeles Times) He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis Clarence ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The University of Minnesota Law Library has acquired the largest known collection of letters to and from Clarence Darrow, the iconic lawyer who died almost 70 years ago. "He is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The courthouse clash of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan pitted modernism against fundamentalism. (Steve Brodner / For ...

The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some social ...

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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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 ...