AV# 82354
The Radio Priest (CC)


The American Experience Series


Video Cassette - 1 hour, - Color - 1988



Irv Drasnin’s documentary profiles the controversial Father Charles Coughlin who, at the height of the Depression, used radio to stir up protest against America’s economic and social systems. Coughlin became the center of a nationwide debate ov er the use of the airwaves for anti-democratic messages and the capacity of a democratic system to cope with this form of dissent. Closed captioned.


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