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The Radio Priest
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars; every Sunday he would broadcast his message railing against the nation's economic and social system to millions of listeners caught in the grip of the Depression.
Aired: Dec 13, 1988 Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 55m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: GBH
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Episodes
01: The Great San Francisco Earthquake02: Radio Bikini03: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo04: Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream05: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter06: Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?07: Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close08: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance09: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited10: That Rhythm, Those Blues11: The Radio Priest12: Hearts and Hands13: Views of a Vanishing Frontier14: Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings15: The World That Moses Built16: Sins of Our Mothers