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Bryan was the prosecuting attorney against John Thomas Scopes, principal in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial. Scopes, who grew up in Salem and attended the University of Illinois, was accused of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; he was arrested, tried and fined for the incident.

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