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Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg 1915-1953
Julius Rosenberg 1918-1953
Rosenberg Pickets- Washington, D.C.
Date taken: 1953
Photograph: Hank Walker (1922-1996)
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Rosenberg Family In Washington
Family of convicted atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are in Washington to appeal for last minute clemency from President Eisenhower, they are (left to right) Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, son Michael Rosenberg (now Meeropol), Julius' mother Sophie Rosenberg, and son Robert Rosenberg (now Meeropol), 1953.
Their attempt failed and the Rosenbergs were executed in Sing Sing prison in New York. http://www.life.com/image/50673302
Morton Sobell 1917-2019
Mr. Sobell leaving the federal courthouse in 1951.
He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but was released in 1969.
Photograph: George Alexanderson The New York Times
Morton Sobell, Last Defendant in Rosenberg Spy Case, Is Dead at 101 NYT Jan. 30, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/
Morton Sobell (...) was convicted in the Cold War spy trial that delivered Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to their deaths and divided the nation for decades
(...)
Serving 18 years in prison until 1969, Mr. Sobell asserted his innocence until 2008, when, in an interview with The New York Times, he startled his defenders by reversing himself and admitting that he had indeed been a Soviet spy.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, call it that,” he said.
“I never thought of it as that in those terms.”
In the interview, he also implicated Mr. Rosenberg in a conspiracy that supplied the Soviets with non-atomic military and industrial secrets stolen from the United States government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/
David Greenglass 1922-2014
David Greenglass after his conviction, April 1951.
Photograph: Associated Press
How Ethel Rosenberg Offered Her Own Life as a Sacrifice NYT June 8, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/
It was the most notorious spy case of the Cold War — the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union — and it rested largely on the testimony of Ms. Rosenberg’s brother David Greenglass, whose name to many became synonymous with betrayal.
For his role in the conspiracy, Mr. Greenglass, an Army sergeant who had stolen nuclear intelligence from Los Alamos, N.M., went to prison for almost a decade, then changed his name and lived quietly until a journalist tracked him down.
He admitted then, nearly a half-century later, that he had lied on the witness stand to save his wife from prosecution, giving testimony that he was never sure about but that nevertheless helped send his sister and her husband to the electric chair in 1953.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/
Ruth Leah Printz 1924-2008
Ruth Greenglass ('s) damning testimony in the Rosenberg atomic-bomb spy case of the early 1950s helped lead to the execution of her sister-in-law Ethel Rosenberg https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09greenglass.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg 1915-1953
Julius Rosenberg 1918-1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their trial for espionage in New York in 1951.
Photograph: AP
A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity Roy Cohn, the lawyer who embraced infamy during the McCarthy hearings and Rosenberg trial, influenced Donald Trump to turn the tabloids into a soapbox G Wed 20 Apr 2016 18.53 CEST Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 20.14 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/20/
Rosenberg Pickets- Washington, D.C.
Date taken: 1953
Photograph: Hank Walker (1922-1996)
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Rosenberg Pickets- Washington, D.C.
Date taken: 1953
Photograph: Hank Walker (1922-1996)
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Rosenberg Pickets- Washington, D.C.
Date taken: 1953
Photograph: Hank Walker (1922-1996)
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Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg 1915-1953
Julius Rosenberg 1918-1953
The couple were the first civilians in American history to be executed for espionage. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1953/jun/20/usa.fromthearchive
At 8:05 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg was executed at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York.
At 8:15 p.m. on the same date, Ethel Rosenberg was executed at Sing Sing Prison. http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/atom/atom.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1953/jun/20/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/20/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/19/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/opinion/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/15/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/21/
30 March 1951
Rosenbergs guilty of espionage
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, March 1953
Photograph: Associated Press
How Ethel Rosenberg Offered Her Own Life as a Sacrifice NYT June 8, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. 1951 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg_NYWTS.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772 Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" Primary source http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97503499/
An American electrical engineer and his wife are found guilty by New York's Federal Court of passing atomic secrets to the Russians.
Julius Rosenberg, 33, and his 35-year-old wife, Ethel, were accused of stealing technical information from the atom research centre in Los Alamos and turning it over to the KGB. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/newsid_3704000/3704209.stm
Few trials in American history can match that of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for its sensationalism.
The young couple were arrested in 1950 for atomic espionage.
Less than a year earlier, the Soviet Union had unexpectedly tested its first nuclear bomb, a mere four years after the U.S. atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Mao Zedong had just declared the People’s Republic of China.
Cold War hysteria was at its peak.
The couple were quickly convicted, sentenced to death and, after two years of international protest and a series of failed appeals, executed in June 1953.
They remain the only individuals put to death for peacetime espionage in American history and most everyone agrees neither should have been killed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/jul/14/
Roy Marcus Cohn 1927-1986
Cohn was born in the Bronx in 1927.
His father was appointed to the New York state courts by Franklin Roosevelt.
His mother, Dora, adored him, and in one of the quirks of Cohn’s life, he lived with her until she died.
Cohn started his career as a federal prosecutor, but it was his performance in the trial of the Rosenbergs – who were tried and convicted of espionage in 1951 – where he made his real reputation.
According to David Greenglass, Cohn pressured him into testifying against his sister Ethel.
In an interview with 60 Minutes in 2003, Greenglass admitted he’d lied on the stand.
He testified his sister typed notes sent on to the Soviets, but in fact she hadn’t.
He also said that Cohn was the one who’d pushed him to incriminate Ethel.
Greenglass’s testimony led to his sister’s execution.
The Rosenberg trial was really the moment where Cohn’s cynicism first came out in public.
He was willing to twist the facts to serve himself, even if it meant sending someone to the electric chair.
Not long after the trial, he began working for McCarthy and the FBI director, J Edgar Hoover.
Between the three of them, they managed to orchestrate one of the biggest stains on American history: the famed interrogations of suspected “reds” under the auspices of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/20/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/20/
Anglonautes > History > 20th century
McCarthyism anti-Communist witch hunts Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957)
intelligence, espionage, spying
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