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Author Clune, Lori, author.

Title Executing the Rosenbergs : death and diplomacy in a Cold War world / Lori Clune
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
©2016

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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
Subject Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 fast
Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 fast
Rosenberg, Julius 1918-1953 gnd
Rosenberg, Ethel 1915-1953 gnd
Subject Trials (Espionage) -- New York (State) -- New York
Trials (Conspiracy) -- New York (State) -- New York
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Trials (Conspiracy)
Trials (Espionage)
Ost-West-Konflikt
Spionage
Strafverfahren
Hinrichtung
Protest
SUBJECT United States -- History -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140300
Subject New York (State) -- New York
United States
USA
Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190265915
0190265914
9780190265892
0190265892