a second Red Scare
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for the Soviets and specifically for passing atomic secrets to the USSR during the Cold War. They were tried and convicted in 1951 for conspiracy to commit espionage, and unlike others convicted of similar crimes, they were given the death penalty. They were executed by electrocution on June 19, 1953. The Rosenbergs were the only two US civilians executed for espionage during the Cold War (1945 to 1991).
They were Executed on June 2nd 1953 at, Sing Sing State Correctional Facility in the town of Ossining , New York. They were Executed by Old Sparky a Electric Chair.
The Rosenberg prosecution was the lynchpin of the anti-Communist hysteria of that Era. The idea that American Communists (and their fellow-travelers) were part of a vast left wing conspiracy whose primary loyalty was to the Soviet Union was a central plank of the 1950s McCarthyism Red Scare and the purging of liberals of all types from government and private industry.
anyone who was accused even if they confessed were hung
They are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (husband and wife) who have been accused to have passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. Although evidence weren't clear about them, they were still found guilty and sentenced to death.
They were Communist Party members in the 1930s (as were many people in the US). They were accused in the 1950s of spying for the communists. Alger Hiss may not have actually been a spy. The Rosenbergs were part of the chain of couriers of Atomic Bomb information from spies in Los Alamos to the Soviets. Julius was the courier while his wife Ethyl was only responsible for retyping the information.
The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius were jointly executed for their crime in transferring Nuclear-weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. at the time of their alleged crimes, however,Russia was considered an ally, not a cold-war enemy.
The Rosenbergs.
Birds of a Feather by The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage.
a second Red Scare
no, but they were involved as couriers to leak information on the bomb to the USSR.
Martha Millet has written: 'The Rosenbergs' -- subject(s): Poetry
Andris Rozenbergs's birth name is Rosenbergs, Andris Karlovich.
to pay for there childrens college tuition.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed.