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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.
Sep 19, 2019 · One of Donald Trump’s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment. Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him...
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.
Jul 29, 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...
Citizen Cohn is a 1992 made-for-TV movie covering the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn. James Woods, who starred as Cohn, was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance. Citizen Cohn also stars Joe Don Baker (as McCarthy), Ed Flanders (as Cohn's courtroom nemesis Joseph Welch), Frederic Forrest (as writer Dashiell Hammett), and Pat Hingle ...
Jun 18, 2020 · The young girl is Ivy Meeropol, the film’s director; its subject, Roy Cohn, was a prosecuting attorney in the Rosenberg trial. Meeropol grew up with the story of the Rosenbergs, who were tried...
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...
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...