This class covers the 1950’s framing and execution of comrades Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by the US government and the history of the campaign that is still continuing to reopen the case and bring justice for them. This comes at a time of heightened repression of communists and anti-imperialists as another Cold War looms. Every […]
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“The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg” details the events surrounding the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953. It includes interviews, filmed decades later, from several individuals who were involved in the case. These interviews detail the numerous flaws in the Rosenberg case, which was in reality nothing
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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electrocution after being wrongly accused of giving secrets on the production of atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. Their trial was a political one, based off of the anti-communist view that the Soviet Union was not technologically advanced enough to harness nuclear energy on
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