Mises Daily
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Jeff Riggenbach
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[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Clarence Darrow”] Clarence Darrow is best known today as the Chicago lawyer who defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. A character based loosely on him is played by Spencer Tracy in the 1960 movie version of the classic play about the Scopes trial, Inherit the Wind .