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"Who Shall Control?" by William Jennings Bryan, June 1925

• William Jennings Bryan was a gifted speaker, lawyer, three-time presidential candidate, and devout Protestant. Bryan argued for the prosecution in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. In this speech, Bryan debated whether legislatures, boards of education, scientists, or teachers should have authority over schools. He argued that teachers cannot teach whatever they want and that Scopes was establishing a dangerous precedent. Bryan also asserted that Scopes was arrested as state representative, and not as an individual.

• Citation: Bryan, William Jennings and Mary Baird Bryan. The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1925. 526-528.

William Jennings Bryan's Closing Argument, State of Tennessee v John Scopes, July 1925 / Summary by page

• William Jennings Bryan's lengthy last speech was delivered in the State's closing argument of the Scopes Monkey Trial. In it, he cites five indictments of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Ultimately, the jury unanimously decided in favor of the defense.

• Citation: Bryan, William Jennings and Mary Baird Bryan. The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1925. 529-556.