films like the manchurian candidate in the early 1960s. in joe mccarthy's absence, though, once he was gone from the scene, the one person from his crusades who remained infamous for them for decades was his top aide. the joe mccarthy lawyer and staffer who was always at his side, who was considered to be sort of his grand inquisitor for his communist hunting stunts on capitol hill. it was that young lawyer i pointed out a few minutes ago named roy cohn. as an even younger lawyer, he had played a role in the proscouth of ethel and julius rosenberg who were executed as spies. cohn would later admit to having exparty communications with the judge in the case, which is a serious violation of trial ethics, but that admission, of course, came too late to save the rosenbergs. but after riding the mccarthyism wave with joe mccarthy in the early 1950s, after senator mccarthy was disgraced and