William Jennings Bryan, US Secretary of State, presidential candidate, Lincoln Lodge 19, Nebraska, may be best known for prosecuting and winning the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial." In what was one of the great media circuses of the 20th century, the court found John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a high school science class. Six years earlier, in 1919, Brother Bryan gave the commencement address at the high school in Salem, Illinois. In the audience on that occasion was graduating high school senior John T. Scopes!
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