Just this year, Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg revived interest in the case.
The Rosenbergs affair was a defining moment in the Cold War and still resonates today. Despite numerous legal appeals and a worldwide campaign for clemency, Rosenbergs were executed in 1953. Kaufman, sentenced the Rosenbergs to death. In the heat of the Cold War-the Korean War had begun the year before, in 1950-the judge who tried the case, Irving R. The United States charged the couple (and several other defendants) with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Seventy years ago, the jury in a federal criminal trial convicted Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel of conspiracy to commit espionage.
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