Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The F.B.I. found their way to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass after the confession of Harry Gold, a Philadelphia chemist who’d been working with the Soviets since 1935. The F.B.I. found Gold after the confession of Klaus Fuchs, a physicist on the Manhattan Project and spy for the Soviet Union… David Greenglass was sentenced to fifteen years in prison (he served 10) and Ruth Greenglass was not charged at all… Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had two sons; family shunned the boys and they were eventually adopted by Abel and Anne Meeropol (Abel Meeropol was an American communist and the writer of the Billie Holiday song, “Strange Fruit”)… Convicted along with the Rosenbergs was co-conspirator Morton Sobell. Sobell served almost 18 years in prison, and maintained his innocence until after the 2008 release of the grand jury testimony to the public. At the age of 91, he told the press that yes, he’d given the Soviets military secrets.
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Files and files and files from the F.B.I.
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Their tale told from the socialist worker’s perspective
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Lots of good background from the History Channel
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2015 discussion after the release of the grand jury testimony
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