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Roy Marcus Cohn (/ k oʊ n / KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists.In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent political fixer in New York City.
May 17, 2024 · Cohn was, in some ways, brilliant. He was barely into his 20s when, as an assistant prosecutor in 1951, he helped engineer the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet ...
Sep 19, 2019 · What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was ...
Mar 5, 2020 · Bettmann/Getty Images Roy Cohn listens to Army Counselor John Adams testify at the McCarthy-Army Hearings that Cohn threatened to “wreck the Army” and have Army Secretary Robert Stevens ousted if his drafted friend, G. David Schine, was sent overseas. May 12, 1954.
Jun 26, 2024 · Roy Cohn was a lawyer and a controversial public figure who rose to prominence through his alliance with U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy and his tenacious legal representation of high-profile clients, including businessman and future U.S. president Donald Trump, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and organized-crime leaders, such as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and John Gotti.
Sep 27, 2019 · "Where's my Roy Cohn?" President Donald Trump has been quoted lamenting when faced with political and legal pressures. Cohn was at least the first of two personal lawyers for Trump to be disbarred.
Jun 17, 2020 · In her new HBO documentary, “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” the director Ivy Meeropol pushes past the easy labels in search of the human being.
Jun 18, 2020 · Q&A; June 18, 2020; Who Really Was Roy Cohn? Who Really Was Roy Cohn? We talked to Ivy Meeropol about her new documentary on the man who helped send her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ...
Mar 6, 2019 · McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare. Roy Cohn entered the spotlight early. At age 23, he was a prosecutor on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted of espionage on behalf of ...
Jun 18, 2020 · Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at The Atlantic.She won the 2024 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism and was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
