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Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [1] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her.
American Atheists was founded in 1963 by Madalyn Murray O'Hair as the Society of Separationists, after the legal cases Abington School District v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett (1959) were filed.
Melissa Leo as Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an atheist activist; Josh Lucas as David Waters, American Atheists' former manager who masterminds the kidnapping; Michael Chernus as Jon Garth Murray, Madalyn's loyal younger son Devin Taylor Freeman as teenage Jon Garth Murray; Rory Cochrane as Gary Karr, one of the Murray O'Hairs' kidnappers
Phil Donahue, daytime talk show pioneer, dies at 88. ... His first guest was atheist scholar Madalyn Murray O'Hair, and Arons noted that Donahue was the first TV host to feature a person who had ...
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair: 1919–1995 Atheist activist Founder of American Atheists, campaigner for the separation of church and state: Filed the lawsuit that led the US Supreme Court to ban teacher-led prayer and Bible reading in public schools. [77] Joyce Carol Oates: 1938– Author Author and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For nearly two decades, Phil Donahue was virtually the only TV talk show host to roam his audience with microphone and make them an essential part of his show. His huge cultural influence — especially with the women who tended to watch television during the day in his era — finally led to a flock of cultural imitators ...
Couric took over Norville’s hosting spot in 1991 and remained on Today through 2006. She recalled her decision to leave the show in her 2021 memoir, Going There, writing, “By 2005, I was at a ...