When was rosenberg execution

Some Jewish leaders, including the American Jewish Committee, publicly endorsed the guilty verdict. Following failed pleas for clemency to President Truman and then to President Eisenhower, the Rosenbergs were executed on June 19, Ethel was only the second woman ever to be executed by the federal government. To the end, both Rosenbergs insisted on their innocence. Documents recently unsealed in both the U. While scholarly debate over the Rosenberg case continues, their names remain a touchstone for many.

Playwright Tony Kushner, for instance, offered a powerful portrayal of Ethel Rosenberg's strength and humanity in his landmark production Angels in America. Heir to an Execution , a recent documentary by the Rosenbergs' granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol, presents a particularly moving portrayal of how Ethel confronted her arrest, trial and execution. The callapse of The Soviet Union allowed westerners to seek out new evidence in this case.

A country responsible for millions of deaths. She was far from the victim often portrayed. Having read "The Rosenberg Letters" all the letters that the Rosenberg's wrote to each other and to other persons whilst they were in prison awaiting their execution; I am convinced that I was reading the greatest 'love story' I have ever read. The love that Ethel and Julius had for each other, and that is expressed in these letters; tears your heart out in sympathy at their plight.

Her letters reveal she is superbly intelligent; has the greatest dignity; and the most amazing courage; of any female I have ever known. She, for me, is the greatest woman of my lifetime. I am bothered continuously by this problem; does anyome know if the Rosenbergs were permitted private time with each other, to be able to hold, touch, and comfort each other; and, to be able to say 'goodbye'properly; before they were executed?

The Rosenbergs were tried and convicted of espionage. They were never charged, tried nor convicted of treason. Further, the Constitution requires that every "overt act of treason" be witnessed by two persons. Yet, as the trial revealed, many of the conspiratorial acts committed by the Rosenbergs were witnessed by only one person. Stalin favored the Russians over the Jews, and actively reduced their influence when Israel embraced America. Stalin was loved by Julius, hated by religious Jews, and his wife was simply so much collateral damage to Judge Kaufman and to religious Jews.

They let the mob take her. They were complicit in their murders. The Rosenberg's were clearly agents of the communist Soviet Union. I personally will always loathe and detest what America did to the Rosenbergs.

Intent on murdering them from the outset the American Justice Department treated them abominably right up to the instant of their executions. Kept separate from each other, unable even to touch each other, each of them were held in conditions of a deploarble state.

Wholly evident of a Police State hell bent on revenge. The interesting point about this entire 'communist' witch hunt that seized America at this time, is that in a true democracy it is perfectly valid to seek to undermine and revolt against government.

President Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address makes this very clear: "When the People shall grow weary of Government,they may exercise their democratic right to ammend it, or their 'revolutionary right' to overthrow it.

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Within the last two days, the Supreme Court convened in a special session and reviewed a further point which one of the justices felt the Rosenbergs should have an opportunity to present. This morning the Supreme Court ruled that there was no substance to this point. I am convinced that the only conclusion to be drawn from the history of this case is that the Rosenbergs have received the benefits of every safeguard which American justice can provide.

There is no question in my mind that their original trial and the long series of appeals constitute the fullest measure of justice and due process of law. Throughout the innumerable complications and technicalities of this case no Judge has ever expressed any doubt that they committed most serious acts of espionage.

Accordingly, only most extraordinary circumstances would warrant Executive intervention in the case. I am not unmindful of the fact that this case has aroused grave concern both here and abroad in the minds of serious people aside from the considerations of law. In this connection I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world.

The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of millions of dead, whose death may be directly attributable to what these spies have done. When democracy's enemies have been judged guilty of a crime as horrible as that of which the Rosenbergs were convicted: when the legal processes of democracy have been marshalled to their maximum strength to protect the lives of convicted spies: when in their most solemn judgement the tribunals of the United States has adjudged them guilty and the sentence just.

I will not intervene in this matter. President Eisenhower's decision came about half an hour after Mr Emanuel Bloch, the Rosenberg's chief lawyer, had addressed an impassioned appeal to him, declaring that the world would be shocked if the execution was carried out with, he said, so much doubt in the case.

He demanded that the President should find himself time "to consider this serious matter" and argued that rejection of the clemency appeal would jeopardise the United State's relation with its allies. Less than four hours before the execution, Mr Bloch announced the failure of yet another attempt to gain a stay - a separate plea to Justice Burton, one of nine members of the Supreme Court - to Reuter and British United Press.