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Radio 4,3 mins

Father Coughlin and the rise of anti-semitism

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Christopher Cook examines a unique set of recordings from the vaults of the American Jewish Committee that strove to define America's war aims and values. In this excerpt we hear how publisher Henry Ford and radio presenter Father Coughlin voiced the increasingly anti-semitic sentiments held by many Americans in the late 1930’s.

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