This Day In History: June 19, 1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage
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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. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S.
citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and
their case remains controversial to this day.
Julius Rosenberg
was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York
on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on
September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of
the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosenbergs-executed?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2024-0619-06192024&om_rid=4db4988918fc0ba1f9725b0b7feaed59af7c45e96fdc463730ef7a247b2920c5
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