Roy Cohn

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Roy Cohn was a lawyer and true American hero who persecuted suspected communists, bear sympathisers, and gays, often working straight from the gut instead of relying on pesky facts from laborious research and investigation. He was so revered by Billy Joel that he name-drops him in the 1980s song "We Didn't Start the Fire".

The life-long bachelor supposedly died of AIDS at age 59 in 1986, but he prefered to rely on his gut feeling that it was really liver cancer.