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Roy Marcus Cohn (/ k oʊ n / KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor known 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.
Mr Cohn’s reputation as a ruthless operator - having prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were sentenced to death in the 1950s for spying for the Soviet Union - and his involvement in ...
The very mention of Roy Cohn during his four decades of headline ubiquity could spark anything from anger to hatred to fear; his shadowy legend persists nearly 40 years after the death of a man ...
The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Ballantine Books, 1977. ISBN 0-345-24869-4; Yalkowsky, Stanley (1990). The Murder of the Rosenbergs. Crucible Publications. ISBN 978-0-9620984-2-0; Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. p. 434 [ISBN missing] Zion, Sidney. The autobiography of Roy Cohn, Lyle Stuart Inc, 1988. ISBN 0 ...
As a young man desperate to impress his father, Fred (Martin Donovan), Trump finds an unexpected ally in notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, infamous for sending the Rosenbergs to the electric chair at the ...
In 1951, Cohn is a 24-year-old legal assistant at the office of United States Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at the Justice Department. The "Communist menace" according to one of the commentators was preoccupying the public in the 1950s. Cohn serves on the prosecution team in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1951: Kaufman is best remembered as the judge who presided over the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and imposed their controversial death sentences. Roy Cohn , one of the prosecutors in the case, claimed in his autobiography that his influence led to Kaufman's being appointed to the case and that Kaufman had imposed the death ...
The film traces Roy Cohn’s rise to national prominence, first as prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs which ended in their execution, then as handmaiden and chief ...