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John Thomas Scopes

Date of birth : 08/03/1900
Date of death : 10/21/1970
City of birth : Paducah, Kentucky, USA

A teacher in Tennessee, by teaching a theory of evolution he fell foul of the state's education laws. His subsequent trial ("The Scopes Monkey Trial") was the inspiration for the play and the film Inherit the Wind (1960), remade for TV by NBC in 1965. In both versions Dick York played the Scopes character (Bertram Gates). TV has made two other versions of the film.

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