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Mar 12, 2020 · After being convicted on those charges in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were offered the chance to save themselves from a death sentence if they confessed, but the husband and wife both refused and maintained their innocence.
Jun 26, 2021 · Ethel Greenglass met Julius Rosenberg in New York City in 1936, when she was 21 and he was 18. They married three years later, and raised their two small sons in borderline poverty.
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...
Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953) were an American husband and wife convicted of espionage and executed for passing nuclear secrets to Soviet agents. Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass were both born in New York City to Jewish immigrant families.
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.
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...
In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917. Members of the communist party, the Rosenbergs were convicted of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945.
