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William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State and 3-time presidential candidate, is one of the US’s most famous lawyers. His most noted case was his prosecution in the Scopes Trail. Opposing him was Clarence Darrow, a leading civil liberties lawyer who defended John Scopes in the trial which centered on teaching evolution in schools. Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and inventor of the modern assembly lines used in mass production today. Through assembly line production, cars could be built much less expensively and much faster which caused the price of cars to drop from $1,200 to $265 at a time when people were making barely more than $1,000 per year. With cars being affordable for nearly anyone, this ultimately led to the development of the US highway system. Charles A Lindbergh was an aviation pioneer most famous for flying his plane, The Sprit of Saint Louis, on the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, going from New York to Paris in about 33 hours. He is also famous for the Lindbergh kidnapping in which his infant son was kidnapped and held for ransom. The child was found dead two months later. The crime caused Congress to enact the Federal Kidnapping Act.