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One of the most famous trials in American history was the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. John T. Scopes, a young science teacher, was charged with violating the Butler Act, a state law that, in a roundabout way, prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. Scopes was quickly relegated to a minor character in the trial as the two lawyers took center stage. Civil libertarian groups hired famed defense lawyer Clarence Darrow (on the left) to represent Scopes. The prosecution obtained the services of former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan (right), a renowned creationist and famous orator. The highlight of the trial occurred when Darrow called Bryan to testify as an expert on the Bible. (The jury was out of the courtroom when Darrow cross-examined Bryan, and the entire exchange was expunged from the court record as the judge ruled it was irrelevant to whether or not Scopes had broken the law.) Scopes was eventually found guilty and fined $100. The conviction was later overturned on a technicality: the jury was supposed to establish the fine, not the judge. Actually, the trial should not have even occurred. Scopes was not at school on the day cited in the charge. The Butler Act remained on the books in Tennessee until 1976. The trial inspired the 1960 movie Inherit The Wind.
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Added: 16th November 2007
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Intro Waylon Jennings
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Added: 13th December 2007
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Wow, this has got to be one of his best songs, sad, but beautiful. Clapton wrote this in 1991, after the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a 53rd-story window in his mother's New York City condominium. By all accounts, the death was simply a tragic accident, and Clapton was distraught for months afterwards.
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Added: 9th January 2008
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Waylon Jennings
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Added: 30th January 2008
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"In Dreams" is a song composed and sung by American rock and roll performer, Roy Orbison.
An operatic ballad of lost love, it was released as a 45rpm single on Monument Records in February 1963. The song's opening line refers to "A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman". The Sandman is a character in Hans Christian Andersen's children stories who brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magic sand onto the sleeping.
It became the title track on the album In Dreams, released July 1963, and also appears on his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.
"In Dreams" was used famously in an infamous whorehouse scene in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986). An effeminate drug dealer, played by Dean Stockwell, lip synchs the song at the insistence of a sadistic criminal played by Dennis Hopper. Later, Hopper's character utters the lines "In dreams I talk to you... in dreams you're MINE - all the time!" as he threatens Kyle Maclachlan's character. The song also appeared in and provided the title for Neil Jordan's 1999 psychological thriller In Dreams.
If the structure of a standard pop song is ABABCAB (verse-chorus, verse-chorus, bridge, verse-chorus), then the structure of "In Dreams" is ABCDE: the lyrics "A candy-colored clown," "I close my eyes," "In dreams I walk with you," "But just before the dawn," and "It's too bad that all these things" all introduce sections of new musical material that are not repeated.
In 1988, songwriters Will Jennings and Richard Kerr wrote a response to "In Dreams", called "In The Real World", which Orbison recorded for his 1989 album Mystery Girl.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine named "In Dreams" as one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
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America Comes Of Age
July 10, 1925 - The Scope's Trial
It was the early 1920s, social patterns were in chaos. Traditionalists worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists sought society's approve of their behavior. Intellectual experimentation flourished. In a response to this new social patterns set in motion by modernism, a wave of revivalism developed, becoming especially strong in the American South.
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Smithsonian Archives
http://www.siarchives.si.edu/research...
Famous Trials in American History
Tennessee vs. John Scopes
Douglas O. Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proje...
newsreel footage
curiosity truTV (formerly Court TV)
http://www.trutv.com/newname.html
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Produced by: United Artists
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
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fanefare for the common man
Aaron Copeland
you can't make a monkey out of me
monkey business
archives, Bryan College, Dayton, Tenn.
http://www.bryan.edu/
the scopes trial
Vernon Dalhart
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Added: 25th September 2008
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Citadels of Despair
"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."
- T S Eliot
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
- Nellie Bly
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Mr. Motts
http://www.opacity.us/
Christina Tullo
http://flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
Erin and Eric Aldrich
http://flickr.com/photos/erinanderic/
Keith Forbis
http://flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
Tara
http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/
Paul Russo
http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/
Veranique Dron
http://flickr.com/photos/kylie6470cla...
Eline Spanjaart
http://flickr.com/photos/elinespanjaart/
Chris Dlugosz
http://flickr.com/photos/chrisdlugosz/
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fire and rain
James Taylor
http://www.jamestaylor.com/
10,000 miles
Mark Isham, John Jennings, and Mary Chapin-Carpenter
http://www.isham.com/
http://johnejennings.com/
http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/
(Performed by Mary Chapin-Carpenter
sanctuary
Constance Denby
http://www.constancedemby.com/
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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