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1 online resource |
Contents |
Truman -- Transition -- Eisenhower -- Execution -- Reverberations |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 fast |
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Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 fast |
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Rosenberg, Julius 1918-1953 gnd |
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Rosenberg, Ethel 1915-1953 gnd |
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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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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Trials (Conspiracy)
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Trials (Espionage)
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Spionage
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Strafverfahren
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Hinrichtung
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Protest
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United States -- History -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140300
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New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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USA
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Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings
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History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780190265915 |
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0190265914 |
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9780190265892 |
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0190265892 |
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