Reading about the Scope's trial is what proved the destructive nature of the ACLU, for me. The professor was a nut, and he knew he was a nut, but the ACLU said, oh that's okay, we like nutty people. Besides we need new and clever ammunition for destroying America...
Watched this on the History channel. There were only a couple very quiet mentions of the ACLU being involved. The History channel misrepresented a couple things I found in my civil war research, too, so it is not surprising they failed to proclaim the ACLU's overwhelming involvement. They pretty much blamed it all on the town-that they just wanted the notoriety and all the fanfare and money it would bring...