Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

"Even if guilty, Ethel and Julius deserved a fair trial, and they didn't get one." — Rachel Meeropol

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In 1950, Sgt. David Greenglass, a former machinist at Los Alamos, confessed to having passed secret information to Russian agents. Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, he claimed that her husband, Julius, had convinced Ethel to recruit Greenglass while on a visit in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1944 and that Julius had also passed secrets. The trial of the Rosenbergs began on 6 March 1951; they were convicted on March 29th and were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman on April 5th. After many appeals (even the Pope got involved), the couple were executed at sundown on 19 June 1953 in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. The Rosenbergs' two sons Robert & Michael (aged 10 and 16), were adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife, and the boys assumed the Meeropol surname.

Nikita Khrushchev confirmed in his memoirs that the Rosenbergs did, in fact, pass atomic secrets to the Soviets.

"The Front" [1976] /tt0074554/
Director:Martin Ritt; Writer:Walter Bernstein; Stars:Woody Allen,
archive footage of Mamie Eisenhower & Ethel Rosenberg

"The Rosenbergs" TV documentary [aired Nov 1993] /tt0401212/
Season 2, Episode 21 of "American Justice" documentary TV series [1992-2002]

"The Fear & The Dream" [1997] /tt1843709/
episode of "The Fifties (TV Mini-Series documentary)

"Cold War" documentary TV mini-series [1998]
"Spies" [1998] episode /tt1282645/
"Reds" [1998] episode /tt1282643/

"Best Years: 1946-1952" [1999] /tt1722306/
episode of "The Century: America's Time" documentary TV mini-series

"Landmark American Trials: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" TV special
[Courtroom Television 1999] /tt32756428/

"Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's Right-Hand Man"
[A&E/Biography Jan 1999] - not found on IMDb (10/2024)
Profile of Roy Marcus Cohn, the attorney who prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying and served as
chief counsel for the infamous anti-Communist Senator Joe McCarthy.

"Modern Marvels" documentary TV series [2000]
"Death Devices" [2000] episode /tt0874124/
"Prisons" [2000 ] episode /tt0873177/

"Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn" [HBO Documentary Films streaming June 2020]

Bully. Coward. Victim. Roy Cohn docufilm

Ivy Meeropol is the granddaughter of atomic spies atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, whose unfair trial was largely controlled by N.Y. prosecutor Roy M. Cohn • 10 total co-producers listed; co-produced & directed by Ivy Meeropol; featuring Cindy Adams, Peter L. Allen, Noreen Bahring, Wayne Barrett, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, Ethan Geto, John Klotz, Tony Kushner, Ryan Landry, actor Nathan Lane, John Leboutillier, Alice Marcus, David Lloyd Marcus, co-producer Peter Manso, Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Lois Romano, filmmaker John Waters, Bobby Wetherbee; with archive footage of: actress Susan Brown {as Ethel Rosenberg}, actor Lee Pace {as Joseph Pitt}, comedian Joey Adams, Maryanne Trump Barry, newscaster Tom Brokaw, N.Y. prosecutor Roy M. Cohn, Richard DuPont, Peter Fraser, mobster Carmine Galante, Mikhail Gorbachev, atomic spy David Greenglass, Judge Irving Kaufman, TV host Larry King, James McArdle, demagogue Joseph McCarthy, Robert Meeropol, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Steve Rubell, financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, Morley Safer, mobster Anthony 'Fat Tony' Salerno, Ian Schrager, dictator Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump, Fred Trump, Ivana Trump, Hans Tuch, Claus von Bülow, journalist Mike Wallace, artist Andy Warhol, lawyer Joseph N. Welch • full credits at IMDb
DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [6/2020] HD rental $3.99, HD purchase $12.99

Family & Others
Julius Rosenberg [1918-1953]
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg [1915-1953]
son Robert Rosenberg Meeropol
son Michael Rosenberg Meeropol
grandaughter filmmaker Ivy Meeropol

co-defendent Morton Sobell
Judge Irving Kaufman
songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife
courier-spy Harry Gold [] served 15 years in Federal prison

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	"We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg" [1975] 'written by their children' Robert & Michael {Rosenberg} Meeropol Ballantine Books mass pb [4/76] out of print/used Univ IL Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/86] out of print/used Houghton Miffin 9x6¼ hardcover [5/75] out of print/many used
	"The Rosenberg File: A Search For The Truth" [1983] by Ronald Radosh & Joyce Milton Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ 2nd edition pb [2/97] for $29.00 RH/Vintage pb [9/84] out of print/used Henry Holt hardcover [9/83] out of print/many used
	"The Rosenberg Letters: A Complete Edition of The Prison Correspondence of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg" [1994] Edited by Michael Meeropol Routledge 8½x5¾ library hardcover [3/94] for $50.00
	"The Man Behind The Rosenbergs" [2001] by Alexander Feklisov (and Sergei Kostin) Enigma Books 9x6 pb [9/2003] for $12.24 Enigma Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60
	"The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass & How He Sent His Sister Ethel Rosenberg To The Electric Chair" [2001] by Sam Roberts Random House 8x5 pb [5/2003] for $13.22 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2001] out of print/many used
	"An Execution In The Family: One Son's Journey" [2003] by Robert {Rosenberg} Meeropol St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [6/2004] for $15.95 St. Martin's Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2003] out of print/used
	"A Spy's Guide To Santa Fe and Albuquerque" [2011] by former C.I.A. agent E.B. Held Reveals details of the plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, Ted Hall's delivery of atom bomb secrets to Russia's K.G.B., the case of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and the allegations against Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee Kindle Edition from Univ NM Press [5/2011] for $9.99 Univ NM Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $15.64
	"Wicked Albuquerque" [2017] by Cody Polston includes chapters on notorious New Mexicans Elfego Baca, brothel owner Lizzy McGrath, spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and town marshal Milt Yarberry Kindle Edition from The History Press [10/2017] for $12.99 The History Press 9x6 pb [10/2017] for $16.69 The History Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2017] for $28.99 watch official video promo [1:13] online at YouTube

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Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg [1918-1953]
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg [1915-1953]