Review
'Bully. Coward. Victim' tells the story of 'dangerously unhinged' fixer Roy Cohn
Director Ivy Meeropol's documentary explores the many layers of the late American legal shark's famously nasty personality
17 October 2021 - 00:00
Born in the Bronx in 1927, attorney Roy Cohn became famous in the 1950s for his abrasive and aggressive prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their trial for espionage, which eventually resulted in their execution — still regarded by both conservatives and liberals as one of the more terrible miscarriages of justice in US history...
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