Scopes Trial Fun Facts
Live broadcast: The 1925 Scopes trial was the first trial to be broadcast live on the radio. Quin Ryan from WGN radio in Chicago covered the trial.
Reporter coverage: More than 100 reporters from around the world, including London and Hong Kong, covered the trial.
H.L. Mencken: The Baltimore Sun columnist nicknamed Dayton “Monkey Town.”
May 1, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYAfter a “good though hardly remarkable first year,” John Scopes’s contract ends at RCHS, but he stays in town to help two students injur...
April 28, 1925 THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYOn this day in 1925, John T. Scopes gave an exam to his biology class that included no questions about the process of evolution, but did...
Scopes Trial Play cast get-together scheduledThe Scopes Trial Play will host a cast/recruitment party on Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in the Rhea County Heritage & Scopes Trial Museum...
Rhea Heritage sponsors first Scopes Festival debateTwo Bryan College students debated the value of school choice April 17 in the same courtroom where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence D...
Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in DaytonRead More
Jul 11, 2025
7:00 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in DaytonRead More
Jul 12, 2025
2:00 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
