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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...
Apr 2, 2014 · Julius and Ethel were both convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, and in early April 1951, the couple was sentenced to death. A series of appeals delayed their execution for more than...
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...
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.
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.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, orig. Ethel Greenglass, (respectively, born Sept. 28, 1915, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 19, 1953, Ossining, N.Y.; born May 12, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 19, 1953, Ossining, N.Y.), U.S. spies. They were married in 1939, by which time they were already active in the Communist Party.
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.
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