| LC control no. | n 50018203 |
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| Personal name heading | Coughlin, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1891-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Coughlin, Charles Edward, 1891- Coughlin, Chas. E. (Charles Edward), 1891-1979 Coughlin, Father, 1891-1979 Father Coughlin, 1891-1979 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000081896013 120784289 Q181249 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Royal Oak (Mich.) |
| Birth date | 1891-10-25 |
| Death date | 1979-10-27 |
| Place of birth | Hamilton (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) |
| Field of activity | Antisemitism White supremacy movements--United States White nationalism Racism |
| Affiliation | Christian Front National Shrine of the Little Flower |
| Profession or occupation | Catholic Church--Clergy Priests |
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| Found in | His By the sweat of thy brow ... 1931. His Bishops versus Pope, 1969: t.p. (Charles E. Coughlin) NUCMC files (hdg.: Coughlin, Charles Edward, 1891-1979) Father Coughlin's radio discourses, 1931-1932, 1932: t.p. (Chas. E. Coughlin) English Wikipedia website, viewed Aug. 14, 2012 (Father Charles Edward Coughlin (October 25, 1891--October 27, 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 thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s; Born: October 25, 1891, Hamilton, Ontario; Died: October 27, 1979 (aged 88), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; ordained: 1916) Wikipedia, 29 Aug. 2020: entry for Charles Coughlin (Charles Edward Coughlin; born October 25, 1891 in Hamilton, Ontario, died October 27, 1979 in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., aged 88; commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit; founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church; Couglin was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts; After hinting at attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program to broadcast anti-semitic commentary; during the late 1930s, he supported some of the fascist policies of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The broadcasts have been described as "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture"; after 1936, Coughlin began supporting an organization called the Christian Front, which claimed that he was an inspiration.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin> Lepore, Jill. These truths, ©2018: page 476 (Father Coughlin, who'd left broadcasting after failing to win the presidency, returned to radio in 1937, when he began to preach anti-Semitism and admiration for Hitler and the Nazi Party.) |
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