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In a message dated 2/1/2006 8:23:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: The trial was the first live radio broadcast from a trial but there was not recording made. William Jennings Bryan did record a number of other speeches some of which are available online at <http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices/bryan.html> from the Vincent Voice Library (although none appear directly related to Scopes). ************ This information is helpful. The people putting on the play somehow thought that they should incorporate a wire recorder into the set. While we could have loaned them a Telegraphone, it is just as well that they don't need it. That time period must have been a null in extemporaneous sound recordings. Wax cylinders were out of the picture and instantaneous discs had not been well developed. I remember reading in a contemporary early 20's magazine about a project to archive radio broadcasts on Telegraphone wires. I wonder if anything ever came of that. Mike Csontos