In 1964, Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O’Hair, atheist activist and founder of American Atheists, “the most hated woman in America.” The year prior, O’Hair was involved in the historic U.S.

In his very first episode, which aired locally in Dayton, Ohio, the host, who would go on to redefine such talk shows, interviewed one of the most notorious figures in America. By Maya Salam Forensics ...

Madalyn Murray was heavy with child -- not the prettiest of visions, given her girth -- as she paced inside a dirt-floor Ohio shack in the spring of 1946. Outside, an intense Midwestern electrical ...