Host/Narrator:
What Scopes represented and what the world came to witness was a colossal clash of ideals. The cool reasoning of science seem to threaten the deep and dividing roots of religion. It was one thing to replace the family mule with the Model T but quite another to trade Matthew, Mark and John for Einstein, Freud and Darwin. For many people these were confusing times. And what may have been most unsettling about the pace of change in the 1920s was that people wanted both the benefits of the future and the familiar comforts of the past."
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Lillian Hall Gerdau:
My father was asked if he would like to join the Ku Klux Klan. He grabbed the guy by the collar and threw him down the stairs. Three nights later, almost directly across the street there was a large cross burning. My mother said 'It's almost as though they're guarding the gates of Hell'
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[about Lindbergh's landing]
Ellie Sullivan:
When Lindbergh came back, it was as though he walked on water. The public couldn't get enough of him. He was a star and there wasn't a woman in America who wasn't crazy about him
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[about the Wall Street crash of 1929]
Clara Hancox: Overnight it was like bombs fell. People jumped off the George Washington bridge which had not long ago been built, people we knew! My father was wiped out, he never recovered, psychologically he never recovered.