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| rdfs:comment | - Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government, especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was also a key figure of prosecution in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A highly controversial figure, he wielded tremendous political power at times.
- Roy Cohn was a lawyer and true American hero who persecuted suspected communists, bear sympathisers, and gays, often working straight from the gut instead of relying on pesky facts from laborious research and investigation. He was so revered by Billy Joel that he name-drops him in the 1980s song "We Didn't Start the Fire". He was no friend to the liberal media, however, and they eventually ruined him. They stuck their cameras into one of his off-the-record hearings, not content to simply take his word that he wasn't abusing his power to get Schine exempted from the Draft.
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| abstract | - Roy Cohn was a lawyer and true American hero who persecuted suspected communists, bear sympathisers, and gays, often working straight from the gut instead of relying on pesky facts from laborious research and investigation. He was so revered by Billy Joel that he name-drops him in the 1980s song "We Didn't Start the Fire". He and Joseph McCarthy destroyed America's enemies with the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, a Congressional subset of the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Cohn had many friends in Washington, but none closer than G. David Schine, a young, handsome, single man with whom Cohn often went camping. He was no friend to the liberal media, however, and they eventually ruined him. They stuck their cameras into one of his off-the-record hearings, not content to simply take his word that he wasn't abusing his power to get Schine exempted from the Draft. Cohn later went on to represent such patriots as Donald Trump and the Chicago Mob. The life-long bachelor supposedly died of AIDS at age 59 in 1986, but he preferred to rely on his gut feeling that it was really liver cancer.
- Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government, especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was also a key figure of prosecution in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A highly controversial figure, he wielded tremendous political power at times.
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