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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.
Known for his role in the kidnapping, robbery and murder of the famed atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Garth and granddaughter Robyn in 1995. Robert Franklin Stroud: Died November 21, 1963 The "Birdman of Alcatraz" Gary Lee Sampson: 23976-038 Died on December 21, 2021. Carjacked and murdered three people in 2001.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists, one of her sons and granddaughter disappeared in 1995, along with $500,000 in gold coins. In time, the police homed in on several suspects, including David R. Waters, who worked as the office manager for O'Hair's organization.
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.
Jon Garth Murray [a] was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1954, the son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Michael Fiorillo, her boyfriend at the time. It is likely that Jon Garth never met his father. In 1960 his mother filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore public school system, naming his older half-brother William J. Murray as plaintiff.
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
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.
After the abduction and murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray, and granddaughter Robin Eileen Murray-O'Hair in 1995, he became editor of both American Atheist magazine and Director of American Atheist Press. [3] In 2009, he retired as editor of the magazine but continued as Director of American Atheist Press.