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Title
Sign
for
Darrow
Octagon
House
Time Period
1990s
Place
Kinsman (Ohio)
Description
A
sign
for the
birthplace
of
Clarence
Darrow
(1857-1938)
in
Kinsman
.
Darrow
came
to
prominence
as a
lawyer
originally
working
for
business
owners
,
eventually
deciding
to
work
for
workers
instead
. He
became
famous
, and
possibly
infamous
, for his
defense
of the
head
of the
American
Railway
Union
, and his
clients
victory
in the
case
.
Darrow
changed
his
focus
again
, this
time
deciding
to
defend
criminals
,
often
men
facing
the
death
penalty
for their
crimes
. He was the
defense
attorney
in the
infamous
Leopold
and
Loeb
case
,
where
the
two
defendants
had
committed
a
grisly
murder
and
faced
a
likely
death
sentence
.
Despite
the
gruesome
nature
of the
crime
, the
two
men
avoided
a
death
sentence
after
pleading
guilty
and were
put
away
for
life
.
Incredibly
, he
successfully
defended
almost
every
one
of his
clients
charged
with a
crime
.
Darrow
also
participated
as the
defense
attorney
in the
sensational
Scopes
Monkey
Trial
. The
state
of
Tennessee
banned
the
teaching
of
evolution
in
schools
entirely
, and
soon
after
one
man
famously
broke
that
law
.
Darrow
was
immediately
recruited
to
defend
him,
while
William
Jennings
Bryan
would
became
Darrow's
adversary
in the
case
.
Although
he
lost
the
case
,
since
there was an
obvious
breaking
of
state
law
, he
made
a
strong
argument
against
literal
interpretation
of the
Bible
. He
put
Bryan
himself
on the
stand
, and
brilliantly
made
a
spectacle
of
Bryan
. He
questioned
Bryan
on the
Bible
and
publicly
embarrassed
him by
showing
that
Bryan
wasn't
able
to
give
a
satisfactory
answer
to
many
of his
questions
about
the
Bible
. The
story
was
soon
told
all
around
the
country
and the
reporters
of the
day
clamored
that
Darrow
had
torn
down
the
idea
that the
Bible
could
be
interpreted
as
fact
. The
case
would be his
last
sensational
victory
,
afterwards
Darrow
rarely
practiced
law
and
lived
quietly
until
his
death
in
1938
.
Darrow
is
still
held
in
high
regard
for his
skill
as an
attorney
.
Date of Original
ca.
1990
Collection
Ohio
Film
Commission
Source
State
Archives
Series
6576
AV
;
Box
5
,
Folder
11
Format
Picture
;
Photographic
Print
(Color)
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL06729.tif
Image Height
2975
Image Width
2975
File Size
18691708 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-06
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