John Scopes

The famed "Scopes monkey trial" pitted two celebrity lawyers against one another, but only one was memorialized outside the Tennessee courthouse where the…

What makes a person voluntarily step into the middle of one of the most controversial and contentious issues of modern times? And what makes them…

John T. Scopes was born and raised in Paducah and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. A school teacher, Scopes garnered national recognition as the defendant…