Mabel McKinneyBrowning American Bar Association Division for Public Education Bruce Ragsdale Federal Judicial Center Rosenberg Trial A Complicated Story of Espionage and Punishment The Accused ID: 676384
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The Rosenberg TrialUsing Federal Trials to Teach History
Mabel McKinney-Browning,American Bar Association Division for Public Education Bruce Ragsdale, Federal Judicial CenterSlide2
Rosenberg Trial
A Complicated Story of Espionage and PunishmentSlide3
The Accused:Julius RosenbergBorn: May 12, 1918, New
York, New YorkEducation: Graduated Seward Park High School (Age 16)City College of New York, Electrical EngineeringMarried: Ethel Greenglass, 1939Children: Michael (b. 1943), Robert (b. 1947)
Employment:
U.S
. Army Signal Corp (1940)
Memberships
:
Steinmetz
Club – CCNY branch of Young Communist League
Federation
of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and TechniciansAmerican Communist Party (1940-43)Accuser: David Greenglass (brother-in-law, business partner)Slide4
The Accused:Ethel Rosenberg
Born: September 28, 1915, New York, New YorkEducation: Graduated Seward Park High School (Age 15)Married: Julius Rosenberg, 1939Children:
Michael (b. 1943), Robert (b. 1947)
Employment
:
Shipping company clerk, strike organizer
Memberships
:
Young
Communist League
American Communist PartyAccuser: Ruth Greenglass (sister-in-law)Slide5
The Accused:Morton SobellBorn: April 11, 1917, New
York, New YorkEducation: Graduated Seward Park High School (Age 16)City College of New York, EngineeringMarried: Helen Sobell, 1947Children: 2
Employment: Navy Bureau of Ordnance (
1939-1941)
General
Electric (aircraft/marine engineering)
Reeves
Instrument Corporation
(radar
e
ngineer)Memberships: Young Communist LeagueAmerican Communist PartyAccuser: Max ElitcherSlide6
The Judge:Irving KaufmanBorn: June 24, 1910, New York, New York
Education: De Witt Clinton High SchoolFordham UniversityFordham University School of Law (1931)Married: Helen RosenbergChildren: 3 sonsResume:Appointed to U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York by President Truman (1949)
Appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals (Second Circuit) by President Kennedy (1961)Chief Judge of the Manhattan Circuit Court (1973-1980
)
Appointed Chairman
of
President’s Commission on Organized Crime (1983) by President
Reagan
Awarded
Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President Reagan (1987)Professional Reputation: Able, Conscientious, Demanding, Energetic, PricklySlide7
Verdict & SentenceConviction: Conspiracy to spy for the Soviet Union in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917
Sentence for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: Death in the electric chairExecuted: June 19, 1953 – the first American civilians to be put to death for espionage in the United States.Slide8
Verdict & SentenceConviction: Co-conspirator, 1951
Sentence for Morton Sobell: 30 years in prisonReleased: 1969Slide9
The AftermathMorton Sobell admits that he, Julius Rosenberg and two others provided aeronautical information to the Soviet Union in 1948 in an interview 2008.
No evidence has been found that Ethel Rosenberg involved in any way.