1962年7月《读者文摘》刊登的短篇小说《震惊世界的审判》取材于发生在1925年7月美国田纳西州山区小镇戴顿地方法庭上的一次审判的实录。约翰.斯科普斯大学毕业后被分配到此地任生物教员和足球教练,因为讲生物教材中达尔文进化论,向学生讲解人是由猿进化而来的理论,而被推上了法庭。辩护人是著名的刑事辩护律师克劳伦斯.达 The July 1962 short story The Judgment that Shook the World, published in Reader’s Digest, is based on the record of a trial that took place in the District Court in Dayton, Tenn., The mountainous town of Dayton, Tenn., In July 1925. After graduating from college, John Scopus was assigned to be a bio-instructor and a soccer coach who was put on the court because he talked about Darwin’s theory of evolution in biology textbooks, explaining to the students that humans were evolved from apes. The defender is well-known criminal defense lawyer 克罗伦斯达