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Jon Hansen: 100 years since WGN broadcast the Scopes Money Trial, except when it didn’t
Jon Hansen, WGN Radio host of Your Money Matters and Let’s Get Legal and executive producer of the Block Club Chicago Podcast, joins John Williams for a look back at WGN 100 years ago. Hansen talks about the major storm that silenced WGN Radio’s broadcast of the The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/7524768/7524768_2025-07-16-160508.64kmono.mp3
Scopes Trial – 100 years later
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Jon Hansen, WGN Radio host of Your Money Matters and Let’s Get Legal and executive producer of the Block Club Chicago Podcast, joins John Williams for a look back at WGN 100 years ago. Hansen talks about the major storm that silenced WGN Radio’s broadcast of the The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
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