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The Witch Hunters

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The last part of Julian Putkowski 's series that analyses grotesque distortions of justice that occur when the law gets political.
3: Roy Cohn: Mr Jugular. Cohn was McCarthy s chief counsel. But Conn's petulant attempts to help his boyfriend dodge the draft brought the army into his sights - and the army in turn brought down
Cohn, taking McCarthy with him. Cohn reinvented himself as arch defender of the Mafia. What is left of McCarthyism in today's newly paranoid USA? With Nicholas von Hoffmann. Producer Matt Thompson

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Julian Putkowski
Producer:
Matt Thompson
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