The trial was the first live radio broadcast from a trial but there was not recording made. William Jennings Bryan did record a number of other speeches some of which are available online at <http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices/bryan.html> from the Vincent Voice Library (although none appear directly related to Scopes). The American Experience site has music clips for contemporary songs related to the trial <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/sfeature/sf_music.html#>
Katie McCormick
Reference Archivist and Coordinator for the Oral History Program
Special Collections - J. Murrey Atkins Library
UNC Charlotte
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Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
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-----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:45 PM To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ARSCLIST] Scopes Trial Sound Recordings
One of our museum members was asked by a local theatrical group about to
present "Inherit the Wind" whether there were any sound recordings
available of the Scopes trial, either the trial itself or broadcast reports of it.
I found a million links to the trial on Google, but only one relating to
sound recordings, on another list, with a few suggestions for research
but no definite sources.
Does anyone have any information about the existence of actual
contemporary recordings of the event?
Mike Csontos