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kentuck

(111,210 posts) Thu Aug 11, 2022, 09:45 PM Aug 2022

On June 19th, 1953

On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair.

(Must have thought it was a serious offense?)

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On June 19th, 1953 (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2022 OP

From what I have read recently... Archae Aug 2022 #1

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Thu Aug 11, 2022, 09:47 PM

Aug 2022

Julius was guilty, but Ethel didn't know anything of the spying.

Roy Cohn let their friend Greenglass lie, so as to protect Greenglass' wife, who was guilty.

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