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The Rosenberg Trial U sing Federal Trials to Teach History - PPT Presentation

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.