They Died in the Closet
They Died in the Closet - Roy Cohn - February 20, 1927 - August 2, 1986 - The McCarthy era attorney who famously helped convict Ethel and Julius Rosenberg also targeted public figures suspected of being gay, though he himself was rumored to have had a relationship with his chief consultant and eventually died of AIDS-related causes.
Army–McCarthy hearings - Wikipedia
March 16, 1954 – The Army–McCarthy hearings are convened. They were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954, held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and a friend of Cohn's.