what is jennings bryan a lawyer for the state of tennessee in the scopes monkey trial?
The Monkey Trial Legendary defense lawyer Clarence Darrow faces off against William Jennings Bryan in the Dayton, Tennessee trial of schoolteacher John Scopes. Bryan died in Dayton five days after the trial ended. When Darwin announced his theory that humans and apes had decended from a common ancestor, he sent shock waves through the Western world.