Father Charles Edward Coughlin (1891 - 1979) was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as mor…
Father Charles Edward Coughlin (1891 - 1979) was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than forty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. Coughlin's targets included Roosevelt, individual Jewish leaders, and Jewish institutions, all branded as Communists. Coughlin linked Jews to the creation and spread of communism. Throughout his career, he told listeners that Jews manipulated the economy, railing against the “international bankers” and “money changers” of the world. Claiming to merely be a “student of history,” he traced “the causes of the effect known as Nazism” for his listeners, concluding that Nazism had “evolved to act as a defense mechanism against the incursions of Communism.” Coughlin listed supposed communist leaders, claiming that the vast majority were “atheistic Jews.”
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