Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
"HE DENOUNCES PEOPLE'S PET NOTIONS AND MAKES THEM THINK!" (LAW.) Hear Clarence Darrow, Famous Criminal Lawyer . . . Defender of the Teacher Scopes. Illustrated poster, 19 x 12 inches, on card stock; minor wear including 1/2-inch chip from lower corner, minor soiling, year added in pencil. Hudson, NY: Hudson Register Print, 21 April [1929]

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We are promised: "You'll like him even when you violently disagree with him." Includes a photographic portrait of Darrow and his quotation: "If the majority were with me, I'd think I was wrong." Among his credits are the Loeb and Leopold trial, the "famous Tennessee Monkey Anti-evolution Trial," and "Dr. Ossian Sweet (Detroit Negro, charged with Murder after defending his home against race-prejudiced Mob)." The title of his lecture was "Crime: Its Cause and Treatment."