Aliases/nicknames: the radio priest

Father Coughlin, born as Charles Edward Coughlin was born in Hamilton Ontario Canada on October 25th, 1891. Born to Irish Catholic parents, he would later become ordained to the priest hood in 1916 and would soon become assigned to the National shrine of the little flower in Detroit Michigan. It is around this time that Coughlin began broadcasting his sermons on the radio, unheard of at the time.

As the broadcasting of his sermons continued, Coughlin would also start to become more political during these radio broadcasts such as denouncing communism/marxism, calling out the federal reserve and addressing the major consequences and loss America as a whole has faced after involving itself in the European war (WW1) leading to him becoming increasingly popular to American listeners across the country.

Initially Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, but would later change his stance and openly criticize FDR for being too friendly to bankers. He would also become a avid supporter for workers rights as in 1934 he would establish a political organization called the National Union for social justice. The platform would call for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads and protection of labor rights.

"Form your battalions, take up the shield of your defense, unsheathe the sword of your truth and carry on in Illinois so that communists on the one hand cannot scourge us and that the modern capitalists on the other cannot plague us"- Coughlin when addressing NUSJ member in Illinois, a major battle ground for workers rights at the time

While the inevitable American involvement in the second world war was approaching, Coughlins radio broadcasts would only grow ever more political as he would show vocal support for some of the policies implemented in Germany, Italy and even Japan. He would also become more vocal towards Jewish elites and their control in modern day politics, going on as saying "they're not even American, these so-called republicans or democrats or whatnot". He would also go on to denounce FDR's public campaigns to get public support to get involved in the European theater of world war 2, saying that Americans do not want to get involved in a conflict irrelevant to the interests of the nation. However the Roosevelt administration acknowledged Father Coughlins reach and popularity among the American people and in 1939 they would take Coughlin off the air permanently using his antisemitism and criticism of his administration as evidence of his pro fascist stance and use it as a justification to silence him.

He would continue his later years as a perish pastor up until his retirement in 1966. He would pass away in Bloomfield hills MI in 1979 at the age of 88. He is buried in the holy sepulchre cemetery in Southfield Michigan.