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  JURIST - The Rosenbergs Trial
The primary interest of the FBI in Ethel Rosenberg in July of 1950, lay in the possibility of threatening her with prosecution as a means of convincing Julius to talk.
Both Rosenbergs pleaded the Fifth Amendment in response to all questions concerning their membership in the Communist Party, most likely to head off potential questions about other acquaintances who might be members of their spy network.
Julius Rosenberg testified as to his modest lifestyle, inconsistent-- it was suggested by the defense-- with the rewards one would expect a world class spy to have received.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials6.htm   (3289 words)

  
 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Rosenbergs, along with in- laws Ruth and David Greenglass, and a Philadelphia chemist Harry Gold, were accused by the government of trading off top-secret information about the atomic bomb between the years 1944 and 1945.
All five were tried, but the most damaging evidence in the case was brought against the Rosenbergs, which consisted of testimonies from Gold and the Greenglasses, along with sketches from the Greenglasses which they claimed were identical to the ones given to the Rosenbergs and Gold to give to the Soviet Union.
Pleading not guilty, the Rosenbergs, the Greenglasses and Gold were all found guilty and the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~lrlento/rosenbergs.html   (266 words)

  
 Rosenberg Trial
Fuchs is a scientist (which Rosenberg was not) he gave valuable atomic secrets to the Russians (Urey testified that Rosenberg did not know enough to do that) he confessed (the Rosenbergs refused to, though offered their lives as reward) Fuchs acted during the war, the Rosenbergs during peace.
Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were executed in the Sing Sing electric chair in 1953 for what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the "crime of the century" - helping the Soviet Union get their hands on blueprints for the atomic bomb in World War II.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of spying and conspiracy mainly on the testimony of Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass, and his wife, Ruth, who were arrested for conspiracy and confessed.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArosenbergT.htm   (3227 words)

  
 CNN - KGB agent says Rosenbergs were executed unjustly - Mar. 16, 1997
The Rosenbergs were executed for espionage in 1953 in one of the most celebrated spy scandals of the Cold War.
Rosenberg had provided him with military secrets but had never handed over anything of substance about the atomic bomb.
Feklisov is known in the United States for his role as an intermediary between the KGB and the White House during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
www.cnn.com /US/9703/16/rosenbergs   (523 words)

  
 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Biography | atomicarchive.com
On June 17, 1950, Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage after having been named by Sgt. David Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother and a former machinist at Los Alamos, who also confessed to passing secret information to the USSR through a courier, Harry Gold.
From the beginning, the trial attracted a high amount of media attention and generated a largely polarized response from observers, some of whom believed the Rosenbergs to be clearly guilty, and others who asserted their innocence.
The Rosenbergs were convicted on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death under Section 2 of the Espionage Act.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Rosenberg.shtml   (507 words)

  
 June 19 - The Anniversary of the Execution of the Rosenbergs
There had to be a Rosenberg Case because there had to be an intensification of the hysteria in America to make the Korean War acceptable to the American people.
"Rosenberg Case", points out that since only the spy's codenames are mentioned on the tapes, they hardly prove anything.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of "conspiring" to commit espionage – not espionage or treason as well explained by the article, "The Committee".
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/felkins12.html   (1206 words)

  
 International Socialist Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Rosenbergs were arrested in 1951, at the height of the McCarthyite witch-hunt against communists, their sympathizers and anyone Senator Joe McCarthy selected to put on trial for dissent.
The Rosenbergs were transferred to Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N.Y. Julius went to the Death House, and Ethel was sent to a cell for the condemned, where she was the only woman prisoner, and lived in virtual isolation completely separated from Julius.
According to witnesses, Ethel Rosenberg, who was brought into the execution chamber shortly after Julius’s body was removed from the chair, gently kissed the matron accompanying her on the cheek moments before she died.
www.isreview.org /issues/29/rosenbergs.shtml   (5128 words)

  
 New Abolitionist Issue 28
To understand the Rosenberg case, it is necessary to understand the political climate in the U.S. in the early 1950s.
The Rosenbergs had been implicated by a machinist at Los Alamos, David Greenglass, who claimed that the couple had recruited him to be part of a spy ring that got the sketch to a KGB agent.
The movement in support of the Rosenbergs didn't have the impact it needed to stop their executions, but it was important for many people.
www.nodeathpenalty.org /newab028/09_Rosenbergs.html   (778 words)

  
 The Rosenbergs - Chicago Gigs.com Music Reviews
The Rosenbergs don't stray too far from their CD live and this, for me, is a blessing.
I always tend to approach a show with a certain a mount of trepidation and after listing to their new CD Mission: You, and loving it, I was more nervous than usual.
That is to say that their songs possess that wonderful combination of melody and swelling harmonies, with the power of rock.
www.chicagogigs.com /reviews/rosenbergs.htm   (461 words)

  
 Bernice Schrank| Reading the Rosenbergs After Venona| Labour/Le Travail, 49| The History Cooperative
Whatever Julius Rosenberg was engaged in, nowhere in these documents do we find the corroboration that he committed "the crime of the century," the theft of the secret of the atomic bomb.
On the one hand, those who accept official history judge the Rosenbergs guilty of having passed the secret of the atom bomb to the Russians; even though they were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, a distinction of major legal import in terms of the rules of evidence.
Julius Rosenberg was charged with a specific crime, conspiracy to commit espionage, and in particular, amongst the overt acts, of having conspired with David and Ruth Greenglass to steal atomic secrets and transmit them to the Soviet Union.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/49/07schran.html   (8965 words)

  
 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klaus Fuchs, who spied for many more years than the Rosenbergs, provided far more sensitive nuclear information to the Soviet Union, and was caught, confessed, tried, convicted, and sentenced in the United Kingdom, received 14 years in jail, which was the maximum penalty in that nation for passing military secrets to friendly nations.
In 1950 the Rosenbergs' conspiracy charge was prosecuted in the United States in the context of the Cold War and the concurrent Korean War, with Judge Kaufman placing culpability on the couple for the Korean War.
The Rosenbergs' two sons, Robert and Michael, were orphaned by the execution, and no relatives dared adopt them for fear of ostracism or worse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethel_and_Julius_Rosenberg   (2879 words)

  
 The execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Even though the charge was never raised in the formal indictment, the Rosenbergs went to trial accused of stealing the "secret" of the atomic bomb and delivering it to the former USSR.
The Rosenberg case took place in the early 1950s, when the anticommunist witch-hunt led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy had reached a fever pitch.
Even though the formal indictment against the Rosenbergs was "conspiracy to commit espionage"--a charge that doesn’t carry a death sentence--Kaufman accused them of atomic spying during sentencing.
www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/458/458_06_Rosenbergs.shtml   (1540 words)

  
 The Rosenbergs: A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceit and Betrayal
Several others, who were suspected of being part of the Rosenberg espionage ring, by the time of the trial had fled the country.
The case against the Rosenbergs was based mainly (but not exclusively) on the testimony of the Greenglasses and Harry Gold.
The second rebuttal witness was the Greenglasses' lawyer's secretary, who confirmed receiving $3,900 from Ruth's brother-in-law, reminding the jury of the supposed $4,000 given to the Greenglasses by Julius, to be used for their flight to Mexico.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/rosenberg/4.html   (2865 words)

  
 StarPolish Current Issues: Intelligent Dialogue From Music Industry Professionals and Artists
To be sure, The Rosenbergs aggressively mined the publicity surrounding their Farmclub refusal - they subsequently signed with Robert Fripp's experimental label, Discipline Global Mobile, launched a Napster-sponsored tour, and bundled an "extra" CD with every copy of their 2001 DGM release, Mission: You that they encouraged their fans to freely share.
The fact of the matter is that the Rosenbergs have been paying their dues since the day singer-guitarist David Fagin, who placed an ad in the Village Voice, returned a call from bassist Evan Silverman was convinced by Silverman's mom to give her son an audition.
The two formed the nucleus of The Rosenbergs and began playing around New York City in 1995, going through various members until 1999, when ex-Fiendz members Joe Darone (drums) and Joe Mahoney (guitar) signed on and the present incarnation of The Rosenbergs was completed.
www.starpolish.com /news/interviews/rosenbergs   (1827 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Guilt of the Son by David Horowitz
It also mirrors the response of the Rosenberg son (as recorded in his book) to the events that overwhelmed his life and which on this fiftieth anniversary of his parent’s execution he attempts to inflict on us one more time.
Instead, the Rosenberg Fund for Children is a self-described support group for the children of “political prisoners.” In Meeropol’s own words of explanation of how he came to create the Fund: “I was startled to learn how many children today were vulnerable to the same kind of nightmares I endured after my parents’ arrest.
Already in 1974, when the Rosenberg sons’ first volume appeared, the support for their parents’ martyrdom was impressive.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8516   (3399 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Taste
Julius Rosenberg, with Ethel as his accomplice, was the head of a sophisticated spy network that deeply penetrated the American atomic program and relayed top secrets to Stalin's Kremlin.
And the Rosenbergs' guilt was corroborated by the 1995 declassification of the Venona documents, thousands of decrypted KGB cables intercepted by the National Security Agency in the 1940s.
Present were the Rosenbergs' children, Robert and Michael Meeropol, who continue to contest their parents' Soviet entanglement, and the former editor of the Nation, Victor Navasky.
www.opinionjournal.com /taste/?id=110007878   (828 words)

  
 Rosenbergs - MSN Encarta
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, United States citizens who were convicted in 1951 of passing information concerning the construction of nuclear weapons to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during World War II (1939-1945).
Despite questions concerning the fairness of their trial and international pleas for clemency, the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953.
The Book of Daniel, a fictional account of the Rosenberg case, see E.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761586256/Rosenbergs.html   (105 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: The Rosenbergs
The Rosenbergs are a New York-based power pop band with a terrific new record called Mission: You that will appeal to fans of bands like The Posies and Fountains of Wayne.
But after a couple of years of being touted as one of the best unsigned bands in America, it is the band's unorthodox approach to the business side of the music business that is making a name for the band.
Now the Rosenbergs are on a tour sponsored by that alleged scourge of the music industry, Napster.
www.ink19.com /issues/march2001/inkSpots/rosenbergs.html   (1952 words)

  
 BELLA'S PAGE
On August 11,1950 his wife Ethel Rosenberg was arrested on the charge of aiding her husband in spy activities.(Moss, 225) On Friday, June 19, 1953 Ethel and Julius were electrocuted in New York State's Sing Sing Prison.
When Feklisov testified that the Rosenbergs were involved in spying activities, he did not present any documents from the KGB archives.
The purpose of the fund is to help children whose parents have been executed because of their "participation in the struggle against war, for Justice of native Americans, in environmental activism and other progressive causes." (Searle) Organizers of the fund try to make a million of dollars every year.
www.ncs.pvt.k12.va.us /ryerbury/2ros/2ros.htm   (1583 words)

  
 Michael Meeropol Statement on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WAS ISSUED BY ROBERT AND MICHAEL MEEROPOL, SONS OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG, AS AN INITIAL REACTION TO THE RELEASE BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY OF THE "VENONA" DOCUMENTS PURPORTING TO PROVE THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE INDEED SOVIET SPIES.
ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN 1145 Main Street Suite 408 Springfield, Ma.
There is a documentary film on the Rosenberg case.
www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/meeropol-on-rosenbergs.html   (681 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Rosenbergs are truly historical figures now, but for a small fraction of the population their fate still has the power to generate yesterday's heat.
It was fifty years ago today that the traitor Rosenbergs were justly dispatched to hell where, I am sure, they will suffer for all time and where they will be joined by their children, who refuse to atone for and continue to support, the sins of their parents.
In a memoir published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Rosenbergs' death by electric chair, Meeropol recalls watching television at a friend's house with his elder brother Michael when news flashed across the screen that their parents' final appeal had been...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=rosenbergs   (4044 words)

  
 Government Views of The Rosenberg Spy Case
Emanuel Bloch was the primary Defense Attorney for the Rosenbergs.
Part of the testimony that was used against Ethel Rosenberg was that she typed David's notes about the Manhattan Project [the Atomic Bomb] and that those notes were part of the information Julius Rosenberg later passed on to the Soviets.
Many historians have come to feel that while Ethel Rosenberg was aware of her husband's activities, she did not play a primary role in the espionage and that her activities did not rise to the level of the death penalty.
www.ccny.cuny.edu /library/Divisions/Government/rosenbergs.html   (3110 words)

  
 The Rosenbergs and the post-9/11 era
The art assembled in “From McCarthy to Ashcroft: We Remember the Rosenbergs” is astonishing and the effect on the soul is chilling.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed 50 years ago after being convicted of treason on charges of selling atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
There is a wave of new research being done on the Rosenberg case — much of it pushed by the two sons that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg left behind –– who were raised as Robert and Michael Meeropol.
www.downtownexpress.com /DE_10/therosenbergs.html   (627 words)

  
 June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Such was the fate of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, arrested in the summer of 1950 and charged with conspiracy to commit espionage.
In the Rosenberg case it was enough that other members of the alleged conspiracy — in this case David Greenglass (brother of Ethel) and his wife, Ruth — testify that the Rosenbergs were co-conspirators.
In return for her husband’s cooperation in framing the Rosenbergs, Ruth Greenglass (who swore she helped steal what the prosecution called “the most important scientific secret ever known to mankind”) was never even indicted.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/06/1619013_comment.php   (2809 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Rosenberg File: Second Edition: Books: Ronald Radosh,Joyce Milton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Most of the Rosenberg's most vocal defenders were well aware of their guilt, even as they proclaimed their innocence.
The review by a recent reviewer which states that The Rosenberg File clears Juius and Ethel apparently has not read this book which makes it very, very clear that Julius was certainly part of a communist espionage ring in the NY City area for years during WWII.
Read both The Rosenberg File for completeness and The Brother by Sam Roberts for a facinating sidelight from the point of view of one of the central characters in the story.
www.amazon.com /Rosenberg-File-Second-Ronald-Radosh/dp/0300072058   (2108 words)

  
 HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM | REVIEWS | The Rosenbergs - Mission: You
Not to compare them to the Monkees, because their sound can only be described as fresh; interesting in the mere fact that they stand out so distinctly in a growing world of "pop aggressive" music.
There are plenty of bands that have "the sound"; it’s just that the Rosenbergs have mastered it.
And these Rosenbergs have that edge while retaining their nonchalant innocence.
www.hybridmagazine.com /reviews/0701/rosenbergs.shtml   (793 words)

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