John T. Scopes is the mystery guest on To Tell the Truth. Scopes was the Tennessee high-school teacher who was the defendant in the 1925 anti-evolution “monkey trial” that was fictionalized in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind. This program was originally telecast by CBS on October 10, 1960. Bud Collyer is the host and the panelists are Tom Poston, Kitty Carlisle, Don Ameche, and Polly Bergen:
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