I’m sure my parents had no idea, before they settled in Royal Oak, about the working-class suburb’s dark history as a base of operations for Monsignor Charles Coughlin, usually shortened to Father Coughlin, and his angry, hate-spewing, anti-Semitic radio program, broadcast on Sunday afternoons throughout the 1930s—first on WJR, then nationally on CBS. At the time, with tens of millions of weekly listeners, he was one of the most influential voices in America.
