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 ...

Clarence Darrow (1853-1938) was one of the greatest litigators of his age, a modern Daniel Webster, for it was Webster who made speeches of reasoning, pathos and sarcasm that enforced the principles ...

A midwestern childhood -- A bum profession -- Becoming the "attorney for the damned" -- Fighting for the people in and out of court -- Labor's lyrical lawyer -- In defense of dynamiters -- Darrow ...

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 ...

Relating the life of one of America's most progressive lawyers, Clarence Darrow (1857–1938), Kersten (Race, Jobs, and the War; Politics and Progress) portrays the "Old Lion" as a socially conscious ...

Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of ...

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 ...