The Miracle of Madeline Mays

The birth of Madeline Mays was a miracle. Legend has it that her mother Lina tried to induce a miscarriage by throwing herself down a stairwell. But archivists at the Eisenhower Library later told Texas Monthly Magazine that there was no evidence found in their records of that claim being true. She became pregnant while overseas by William J. Murray and moved back to the states where she gave birth to a baby boy whom she named after his absent father. Until the Supreme Court case in 1963, Madeline's now infamous battle to keep prayer out of public schools had won her more than a handful of supporters around the country. Some of them sent money to her home, sometimes simply addressed to