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Roy Marcus Cohn ( / koʊn / 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.
May 17, 2024 · As new film The Apprentice premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, a look at the cultural afterlife of political hitman Roy Cohn, who was Donald Trump's mentor in his early career.
Sep 19, 2019 · Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “ a snake ,” “ a scoundrel ” and “ a new strain of son of a bitch ,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer...
Mar 5, 2020 · Roy Cohn has been called the most malevolent force in 20th-century American politics — and that was before mentoring a young Donald Trump in mafia-style politics. Some historical figures seem to crop up at every major cultural or political turn.
Jun 17, 2020 · Roy Cohn Got Her Grandparents Executed. She Made a Film About Him. In her new HBO documentary, “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” the director Ivy Meeropol pushes past the easy...
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 ...
Mar 6, 2019 · One of the most notorious is Roy Cohn, a man whose influence spans several decades of hot button issues, Republican politicians and LGBT history. Cohn was a prosecutor in the Rosenberg spy...
Sep 25, 2019 · Naomi Fry writes about the new documentary “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” about the infamous lawyer and fixer for Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump.
Apr 14, 2017 · And, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, many of Trump’s private conversations with his late mentor, the lawyer Roy Cohn, were eavesdropped on by Cohn’s longtime switchboard operator and ...
Oct 13, 2019 · Roy Cohn was Donald Trump's personal lawyer and was known for his open ruthlessness and complete disregard for ethics. Here's a clip from the film, where Cohn describes...
