◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Madalyn Murray Ohair — Part 2

40 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jan 2, 1964 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Madalyn Murray Ohair · 40 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
$1 . religion and government.’ . Court. - That court now. has un- - — “a4 om » « veg ota - ae nie "aS = o- “¥ uae mo tote : fy Mt eT OF Le a a oe awe y aw: «et. Wat. 2 : .-' « . + Loon mee ” 0-19 (Rev. 3-2-62) , ; : ; et _ oo oy pe _ Tojlson eo. Let : 7 . eo - Belmont __ to te om . . . a : Mohr é 7” c Callahan _ 4q , Conrad 4 DeLoach _ _ Evans Malone Rosen Sullivan —_ _Tavel _w Trotter ‘ Tele Room — Set weit Sp eee Laos ; Holmes —— "ANNAPOLIS: (Ney Ahew ‘public: “school... “The .Muirays Charles’ ‘grag “and Pes. Gandy challenge’ to religious exercises | say they are atheists and main-|ter L. “Barrett, who ‘had. been in’ public. . schools: ‘appéared | tain” that the religious™exer-. assigned : from |, the ; “Baltimore! headed for the ..U.S:: Supreme cises -violate ‘the, constitutional: County: ‘Circuit! - Court.” _ Judge Court in the wake ofa 43 rul- provisions regarding |. - Church-' Barrett ‘sat ‘in “place: of -Judge ° ing in their favor by the Mary- [State relations and- equal Pro.’ Cc ‘Ferdinand ‘Sybert, “former land | Court. ‘of _Appealgs.?: a ; tection under, the law. 8 Matyland:, : attorney. :/general, | *Steryiand’s high s highest court hela 2 religié as Exercises * are | jast Friday that Bible ‘reading carried‘out under a Baltimore ‘- y Dissenting. ‘were. ‘evi: Dh udge. and/or recitation. of the. Lord's Board of Education ruling. The |. : Frederick C.. Brune’ and Judges! . ‘| ruling was adopted in 1908 and i— —— | amended in 1960 to provide that | William L’ Henderson and Sted: aan Tato analysis ‘of ‘ihe gs. j any. student may be excused |man P Prescott.;: nee ee ‘ from the exercises upon tten wn tes involved in this and sim- hi ~ ra. | Judge’ Horney. in his major- “eases, see editorial, “In | request of Murray is € o ised. ity opinion put special emph is’ veo” ian. ‘Youn urray is excus . | We Trust+Or, Do We” B y -{on_the -fact that -there. is] no’ - The dispute began in Oetober, compulsion for ‘a student} to’ 1960,. when Mrs. Murray with-|| rake part. vin the, ‘eligious ex: ; ~~ |drew William from a Baltimore ercises. a ; ‘Prayer, in. “Baltimore - ” public junior high school in. protest |. : ischools . do not violate the US. against the religious exercises. |} ‘Constitution. ee ae She later returned him to class. : ” ¥ when school authorities agreed bd. re gee “sete Wik|to excuse him. from the exer. imajority opinion, © “neither. the | ~- ; : : i: First Amendment nor the Four-J..:In’ Dévember: 1960, she began’ > einer cnet teenth Amendment was intend- ‘court, action against the exer-. ‘ed to stifle all rapport between cises. . we “He said ‘the aihount ¢ 0 "school: time: ‘and ‘of. public . funds ain-; volved are negligible and that’ the, exercises are in‘ the. same, category as prayers’ in‘the Leg? * “Por ‘these’ reasons,” “and par- ticularly because the appellant-rne washington Post and__ student::in - this: case-.was: not Tt ala compelled “to. participate *: mee Hor lwe hold that: ‘the opening . exer.The Washington Daily New: wi cises do not “violate the religi- -Phe Evening Star ‘ous “clauses ' (of: the . -Constitu-, ew York Herald Tribune — {tion),” he sald." . ove. ars a1 The: “Judges: e Smajority tr Leonard JK el in: the Court-of “Appeals were Attorney n erp a udges Horry Hall. Hammond,’ ‘man said he would. appeal the decision to the: U.S. _Supremé{e der advisement a case from|- New York involving a challenge ‘to the ‘constitutionality of recit- ing a non-sectarian prayer . in New York public schools. _ Kerpelman repres nts Madalyn “Murray andjher sog, William J, Murray, Uf. a: niiith-graver;in: a . Baltishore. ff . . oe, Hel fs re ‘lew York Journal-Americar. . Judge Horney’ ‘noted tha the: dew York Mirr US. Supreme Court. had in re °F cent years remanded to. Penn-!e™ York® Dally Nows sylvania ‘courts a -case involf-Vew York Post ing religious exercises -in .p The New York Times —— Ali schools,’ after the law gqv “Phe Worker J ering the exercises was amend- & (Cratinued | on Page 12)... wernt New Leader - The Wall Street Journal —__ , The National Observer : . Dete i Ss LO)g, PRS ' The Catholic Standa Lenora _ Washington, D. C. Garry sateen Ee a Las . ington
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 19
Jump straight to page 19 of 40.
Reader
Madalyn Murray Ohair — Part 1
Stay inside Madalyn Murray Ohair with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Madalyn Murray Ohair Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the General archive hub and the more specific Madalyn Murray Ohair topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
letter bureau
Related subtopics
John Murtha
57 documents · 1471 known pages
Subtopic
Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy
42 documents · 2653 known pages
Subtopic
D B Cooper
41 documents · 13789 known pages
Subtopic
Kansas City Massacre
38 documents · 5300 known pages
Subtopic
Black Panther Party
36 documents · 3066 known pages
Subtopic
Malcolm X
36 documents · 3932 known pages
Subtopic