Kirtley Mather's guest appearances

Kirtley Mather

The Human Condition

Robert Lee

David Clark

John Martin

Albert Ellis

John Gardner

David Williams

Charles Johnson

Mercedes McCambridge

Ron Jackson

David Cohen

David Jackson

William Perry

Gerald Williams

Mary Tamm

Kenneth Clark

OwlTail

Jerry Tompkins

The famous Scopes Trial is the subject of this 1971 episode. In 1925, substitute high school teacher John Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which made it a crime to teach Darwinian evolution in a public school. The featured guests are Jerry R. Tompkins, who edited a 1965 book on the trial, D-Days at Dayton, and Kirtley Mather, a Harvard geologist and prominent critic of McCarthyism who helped Clarence Darrow with his famous defense of Scopes.

Jerry Tompkins and Kirtley Mather: The Scopes Trial and Its Effect on the Participants