Summer For The Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate Over Science And Religion - Plot & Excerpts
One observer called it “the worst day of all,” and complained of “the crowd filling the court rooms so that a breath of air through the windows was almost impossible.”1 Only the renewed cordiality among participants made it tolerable. When prosecutor Ben McKenzie appeared on the verge of collapsing from the heat again, Malone rushed over to fan him. During the noon recess, two young prosecutors, Wallace Haggard and William Bryan, Jr., went swimming with the defendant in a mountain pond. “The water was cool and clear,” Scopes later recalled. “We temporarily forgot the trial and everything; as a result we were late returning to the courtroom.” When they finally showed up, Scopes could barely squeeze through the packed aisles to the defense table. “Where the hell have you been?” thundered Hays, but no one else appeared to notice the defendant’s absence.2 Prosecutors had too much trouble locating their own witnesses—schoolboys lost in a sea of adults—to worry about Scopes, and by the time they found them they had lost their chairs to spectators.
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