Thursday, March 29, 2012

THIS DAY IN HISTORY MAR. 29

    On March 29, 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians and were sentenced to death. They were executed on June 19, 1953. While for years supporters of the Rosenbergs maintained that they were merely innocent victims of the communist witch hunts of the time, it was revealed years later that at least Julius was indeed guilty of treason. Morton Sobell, the co-defendant in their famous espionage trial, finally admitted that he and his friend, Julius, had both been Soviet agents.

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