| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Summary |
In the summer of 1950, FBI agents arrested Julius Rosenberg and charged him with conspiracy to commit espionage. Specifically the Justice Department accused him of passing, through his brother-in-law, the 'secret of the atomic bomb' to the Soviet Union. A few weeks later they charged Julius's wife Ethel with the same crime to pressure them to name spies. Convicted and sentenced to death at the height of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria, the couple was plunged into a whirlwind of appeals, protests, and propaganda until their executions in June 1953. Their deaths did little to silence protest, however; as martyrs their case became legend and cast a spotlight on their two orphaned sons. More than half a century later the trial and executions remain living and breathing controversies |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 26, 2016) |
| Subject |
Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trials (Espionage) -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Trials (Conspiracy) -- New York (State) -- New York.
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United States -- History -- 1945-1953.
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| Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190265915 (ebook) |
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