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    1) In 1940, a group of armed American men led by a Catholic priest sought to overthrow the US government through violence and bombings. 2) Known as the Christian Front, the group recruited over 10,000 members and received funding from Nazi Germany. They aimed to remove FDR from power through assassination and replace the government with an authoritarian regime. 3) The FBI disrupted the Christian Front's planned attacks in January 1940 by arresting 17 members. However, most were acquitted at trial, representing a failure of the prosecution and a celebration for anti-democratic forces in the US.

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    1) In 1940, a group of armed American men led by a Catholic priest sought to overthrow the US government through violence and bombings. 2) Known as the Christian Front, the group recruited over 10,000 members and received funding from Nazi Germany. They aimed to remove FDR from power through assassination and replace the government with an authoritarian regime. 3) The FBI disrupted the Christian Front's planned attacks in January 1940 by arresting 17 members. However, most were acquitted at trial, representing a failure of the prosecution and a celebration for anti-democratic forces in the US.

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    1) In 1940, a group of armed American men led by a Catholic priest sought to overthrow the US government through violence and bombings. 2) Known as the Christian Front, the group recruited over 10,000 members and received funding from Nazi Germany. They aimed to remove FDR from power through assassination and replace the government with an authoritarian regime. 3) The FBI disrupted the Christian Front's planned attacks in January 1940 by arresting 17 members. However, most were acquitted at trial, representing a failure of the prosecution and a celebration for anti-democratic forces in the US.

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    Asynchronous Class: Listen to the Podcast with a view to religion & democracy, Rachel

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    ● Photo of guns on newspaper in 1940


    ● Charles Gallagher got a phone call from the FBI, flipping through pages for a research
    paper, young men carrying huge rifles
    ● Group of armed American men led by Catholic priest trying to overthrow the government
    ● Journalists downplayed, disregrarded them as crackpots
    ● He was being trained as a police officer
    ● Folks were armed for war
    ● What motivates religious people to take up arms, how big of a threat
    ● Requested FBI file on case
    ● Told that FBI file did not exist
    ● Someone on reddit input the case number
    ● Detailed planning, armed assaults, using bombs, how close they came
    ● 1940, Senator Ernest Lundine died in mysterious plane crash
    ● Explosive reports that he had been in kahoots to distribute Nazi propaganda
    ● Nazi propaganda scheme was part of a widening criminal investigation
    ● January 1940, newspapers ran those photos
    ● Largest radio audience in the world
    ● Threat from jews
    ● Everything blamed more and more on Jews
    ● Said marx and lenin were jews, blamed communism on jews
    ● Coglin, jews are real aggressors
    ● Blaming jews for their own persecutio
    ● Father Coglin said Democracy was doommed→ wanted to take the road to facism and
    admire facism and fascist leaders
    ● Militia to create aims→ Christian front
    ● Boston→ Led by Francism Moran, irish catholic, 1936 coglin came to boston,
    commissioned Moran to be a litenant in Bosotn
    ● Recruited 10,000 people for Christian Front meetings
    ● Fire spreading in Boston because Moran was furthering the mission, bombarding the city
    with anti-semitic propaganda
    ● Meeting with Hitler representative
    ● Christian front finances were bosltered by Hitler government
    ● Wanted FDR to be removed through force and violence
    ● Tyrant or not
    ● City of NY, paramilitiariced cells, military grade weaponry, how to make pipe bombs
    ● Military grade explosives (cordite) went missing in NY, commander took that stuff and
    gave it to the Christian front
    ● New members with military connections
    ● Simultanious assasinamtion of senators, bombings
    ● Toppling of democratic government, replace it with an authoritarian government
    ● Stationary target practicie and military rushes
    ● Browning automatic rifle, very deadly
    ● Predicted january attack on the 20th
    ● FBI moved on the 13th, on the Christain front before bombs explode
    ● January 1940
    ● J. Edgar Hoover announced Christian Front roundup
    ● 17 members arrested, served in branches of U.S. military or NY, charged with Sedition
    ● Refered to as a dictatorship similar to Hitler’s
    ● Father Coughlin pretended not to know them
    ● Devised scenario of young American patriot boys, anti-communisty, truly American,
    purging America
    ● Trial, spring of 1940, in Brooklyn, head of Crinimal department came
    ● FBI had put informant in group
    ● June 1940, most acquitted, all got off
    ● Persecution failed
    ● Celebration of defendants
    ● Humiliation for government
    ● Rise of antidemocratic violent movment
    ● Violence

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