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Father Charles E. Coughlin calls for armed Americans to create a militia. Their plot to overthrow the U.S. government and democracy questions if the country can handle that kind of homegrown threat.

Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* *Few days later Father Coughlin broadcast an attack on E. D. Stair, publisher of the Detroit Free Press and non-salaried president of Detroit Bankers ...

Father Charles E. Coughlin declared in his weekly broadcast yesterday that “sane Americans will not subscribe to a proposition of hurtling this nation into war for the internal, religious or ...

“Be not too certain that there will be an election in November 1936,” shouted Father Charles E. Coughlin to his alarmed radio audience last month. What he meant was that war might take the ...

Father Charles E. Coughlin today renewed his radio attack on Jewish “international bankers,” concentrating in particular on Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. He charged Mr. Morgenthau ...

Most conspicuous Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. are Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, whom William Henry Cardinal O’Connell of Boston flayed last spring for “demagogic ...

Long before Tucker Carlson’s unvarnished nationalism, before Glenn Beck’s conspiracy theories and Rush Limbaugh’s philippics, Charles Edward Coughlin held millions of American radio ...