Charles Coughlin

Father Charles Edward Coughlin (1891–1933) was a Canadian-born 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 forty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. This radio program included praises of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. His early opposition to President Joe Steele's Four-Year Plan led to his arrest for "ties" to Nazi Germany, and execution for treason.