Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn is about power
cross posted from GD. Was yesterday but on HBO can be viewed any time
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213613336
Many interview subjects in this documentary about infamous power-brokering attorney Roy Cohn describe him as one of the most evil men in American history, and he was right in the middle of some very dark stuff, like helping send Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair on trumped-up treason charges, advising Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare, serving as an operative for brutal anti-gay politicians while being gay himself, and helping build a young Donald Trump into the man he became.
This documentary — made by director Ivy Meeropol, who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's granddaughter — reckons with Cohn's grim legacy, with special attention paid to his relationship with Trump as the then-real estate developer’s attorney from the '70s through the '80s, when Trump abandoned him as he was dying of AIDS. This documentary shows how power works when wielded by someone who uses it exclusively for nefarious purposes.
(From TV Guide)
The Rosenberg trial was there front and center and Kudos to Dershowitz - yes - for taking a firm stand.
