Word: shreveport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARGIE TOWNSEND Shreveport...
Died. John T. Scopes, 70, Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee...
...appears on a full page of the yearbook crowned with baby carnations, a heart-shaped diamond pendant around her neck. With two others, she was judged "Most Likely to Succeed." Rita Joyce got married after graduation, had two children, got divorced, earned a teaching degree and moved to Shreveport, La., a city that she finds "much more conservative than Salina and very bigoted." She is still "cute as a button," as an old counselor at S.H.S. says. Rita Joyce has also grown startlingly outspoken in her opposition to the war in Viet...
...hand. "I was born to do it, man," Robertson recalls. "Born to pack my bag and be on my way down the Mississippi River. I was music-crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Junior Parker?and they kept talking about those places in their music...