The Different Sides of Father Coughlin

Throughout this second blog project which is focused the way journalism has influenced history I will show the different sides of Father Coughlin.  From the year he was born, 1891 until about 1934 Father Coughlin was viewed as being more a positive than negative.  He was very strong about his Catholic faith. Father Coughlin was ordained to the priesthood in 1916. In my opinion from 1916 until 1923 when he taught at the Assumption College in Windsor Ontario he did a great service and gave to others. He then moved to Royal Oak, Michigan’s National Shrine in the Little Flower. In 1926 he began radio broadcasts on station WJR. This was in response to the cross burnings by the Ku Klux Klan on the grounds of the church, At that time he gave a weekly hour long radio program. In 1931 the CBS radio network dropped free sponsorship after Coughlin refused to accept network demands. CBS wanted his scripts to be reviewed prior to broadcast. At that time he raised enough money to create his own national network. Father Coughlin was then able to reached millions of listeners.