It is widely believed that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty of espionage. They were convicted and executed for aiding the Russians.
they were thought to have given nuclear bomb information to the soviets
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were an American couple with strong Communist leanings who were charged with, and convicted of, Conspiracy to Commit Espionage and for Passing US Atomic Secrets to the Soviet Union in 1951. The sentence, death by electrocution, was carried out on June 19, 1953.Testifying and also convicted were Harry Gold, Morton Sobell, and David and Ruth Greenglass (Ethel's brother and sister-in-law), who testified against the Rosenbergs to save themselves. Only the Rosenbergs were executed.(see related link)
The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius, were an American couple with strong Communist leanings who were charged with espionage for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. At the height of the so-called Red Scare, the trial of the Rosenbergs polarized political and judicial opinion in the US. They were tried and convicted in 1951. The Rosenbergs were either unable or unwilling to reveal details of the spying operations by the USSR. The sentence, death by electrocution, was carried out on June 19, 1953. Their case continued to raise legal and moral questions more than 50 years later.(see related link)Spying for the SovietsThe Rosenbergs were convicted for supplying the USSR with details of the Manhattan Project, on which Ethel's brother (David Greenglass) had worked. Julius had been recruited by the KGB during World War 2, giving this and other classified information to his Russian case officer, Alexander Feklisov. When the spy ring was exposed in 1950, the Rosenbergs and others were arrested and charged with espionage. Ethel Rosenberg was implicated mainly on the basis of her husband's activities, and Julius by his connections to Soviet agents. The couple's connection to Communism was one of the driving forces in their prosecution.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, through her brother, David Greenglass. During much of the Cold War the Rosenbergs were a cause celebre, many doubting their guilt. When the Soviet Union disintegrated the archives of the KGB revealed that they had in fact done it, and were guilty as sin.
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Birds of a Feather by The Rosenbergs
a second Red Scare
no, but they were involved as couriers to leak information on the bomb to the USSR.
Martha Millet has written: 'The Rosenbergs' -- subject(s): Poetry
Andris Rozenbergs's birth name is Rosenbergs, Andris Karlovich.
to pay for there childrens college tuition.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed.
it cracked the soviet spy codes and provided strong evidence that the Rosenbergs were guilty
Everyone thinks it was the Rosenbergs, but it was actually Ted Hall.
c the fact that people as influential as the rosenbergs were communist raised concern
the electrocution of the Rosenbergs, a husband and wife who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced to death