Charles Coughlin
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About
Popular priest who turned to radio to assemble his own Social Justice political party. He would often use his radio program to disseminate his anti-semitic views and support the policies of Hitler and Mussolini,
Before Fame
Strongly influenced by Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical On the Condition of the Working Class, he decided to devote himself to spreading the gospel of social reform.
Trivia
Starting in late 1926 he began regular radio broadcasts, criticizing both the Soviet Union and the Ku Klux Klan, the latter retaliating by planting a burning cross on his lawn.
Family Life
He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Associated With
Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, he then became opposed to Roosevelt, and criticized him in his shortlived Social Justice magazine.
