Atheist’s Diaries to Be Auctioned
From Times Wire Reports
Three years after Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the nation’s foremost atheist, vanished in a still-unsolved mystery, her diaries are scheduled to be auctioned Jan. 23 to pay creditors and back taxes. The thoughts open a window into the mind of a woman who won the 1963 Supreme Court case barring prayer in public schools and who tried to remove the phrase “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency.
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