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== Intro error ==
== Intro error ==
The claim that Clarence Darrow refused to testify is, for better or worse, false. After the uproar caused by Darrow's examination of Bryan, Judge Raulston stated that the whole exchange was irrelevant, and didn't allow it to resume. Whatever one might think of Darrow or Bryan (neither seemed to be very technically competent lawyers, based on the parts of the transcript I read), neither was scared to testify.
The claim that Clarence Darrow refused to testify is, for better or worse, false. After the uproar caused by Darrow's examination of Bryan, Judge Raulston stated that the whole exchange was irrelevant, and didn't allow it to resume. Whatever one might think of Darrow or Bryan (neither seemed to be very technically competent lawyers, based on the parts of the transcript I read), neither was scared to testify.
Evidence: <br />
Bryan: I shall have to trust to the justness of the press, which reported what was said yesterday, to report what I will say, not to the court, but to the press in answer to the charge scattered broadcast over the world and I shall also avail myself of the opportunity to give to the press, not to the court, the questions that I would have asked had I been permitted to call the attorneys on the other side. <br />
Darrow: I think it would be better, Mr. Bryan, for you to take us also with the press and ask us the questions and then the press will have both the questions and the answers
::Taken from page 163 of "The Scopes Trial: A brief history with documents" by Jefferey P. Moran.