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2 unusual facts about Roy Cohn


Cornelius Edward Gallagher

Gallagher was approached by attorney Roy Cohn, who asked him on behalf of Hoover to hold hearings which would shift the blame for government surveillance from Hoover to Kennedy.

Kay Boyle

Her husband was dismissed by Roy Cohn from his post in the Public Affairs Division of the U.S. State Department, and Boyle lost her position as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, a post she had held for six years.


Gene Weltfish

On April 1, 1953, she was questioned by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security staffed by Roy Cohn and consisting of Senators Joseph McCarthy, Karl Mundt, John McClellan and Stuart Symington.


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