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Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.
May 30, 2024 · Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime. Ethel Greenglass worked as a clerk for some years after her graduation from high school in 1931.
Mar 25, 2020 · The story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, reads like something out of a John le Carré novel with its components of shadowy...
Nov 24, 2009 · On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to...
Jun 9, 2021 · From the moment of their arrest in 1950 Ethel and Julius had become inseparable as “The Rosenbergs.” President Eisenhower jointly condemned them: “By their act these two individuals have in...
Apr 2, 2014 · Julius Rosenberg became an infamous figure in American history when he was convicted, along with his wife, Ethel, of giving military secrets to the Soviet Union in the early 1950s.
Sep 19, 2018 · Few death-penalty executions can equal the controversy created by the electrocutions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953. Accused of overseeing a spy network that stole American atomic...
Mar 12, 2020 · Convicted of spying for the Soviets in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in 1953. But were they actually guilty? "I consider your crimes worse than murder."
Apr 2, 2014 · Ethel Rosenberg and husband Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. They were both executed by the U.S. government in 1953.
Dec 25, 2018 · The trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was certainly dramatic. The Rosenbergs—accused of participating in a complex plot to sell American atomic secrets to the Soviets—were arrested in the summer of 1950, Julius on July 17 and Ethel slightly less than one month later.
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