It was almost exactly 55 years ago: April 8, 1966.
Time magazine hit the newsstands with the following headline: "Is God Dead?"
"Reaction from the world’s great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous. From Independence, Mo.," said a contemporary news report, "former President Harry S Truman, who received the news in his Kansas City barbershop, said, 'I'm always sorry to hear somebody is dead. It's a damn shame.'"
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