As the newspapers reported itThe J. Frank Norris murder trial

As printed: DR. J. FRANK NORRIS TO FACE JURY FOR MURDER IN OFFICE

ContextThe Rev. J. Frank Norris is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Fort Worth and a leading fundamentalist preacher, known for attacks on city officials from his pulpit. Under Texas practice a large panel of prospective jurors is summoned and questioned one by one before twelve are seated.

As printed: Begin Trial Today Of Pastor Norris For Killing in Texas

ContextThe Rev. J. Frank Norris is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Fort Worth and one of the country's leading fundamentalist preachers, known for attacks on city officials. Fundamentalism is the movement defending literal scripture against modernist theology and the teaching of evolution; William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic orator who argued the Scopes evolution case, died in 1925.