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Rosenbergs executed (This day in history)
History.com (This day in history) ^ | 06/19/2016 | staff

Posted on 06/19/2016 3:19:57 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

On this day in 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.

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Should be a holiday."

It will be a national holiday when Slick Willie and Satan's daughter, following their trial, conviction, and sentencing for treason, are publicly hanged before cheering throngs of patriots.

21 posted on 06/19/2016 3:51:38 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Ammo Republic 15

Oh wow.
I would have loved to have interviewed your uncle!
I wrote countless essays on this subject when I was in school.


22 posted on 06/19/2016 3:52:03 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE! VOTE TRUMP, at least once!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Too bad we couldn't have done the same to Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers.That would mean that Obama would still be in the Illinois legislature shaking down liquor store owners for favorable votes.
23 posted on 06/19/2016 3:59:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: miss marmelstein
The boys visited Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N.Y., on Thursday, June 18, 1953, their parents’ 14th wedding anniversary. Michael interrupted the death-house decorum by wailing: “One more day to live.” The following day, their parents wrote: “Always remember that we were innocent and could not wrong our conscience.”


His answer is at the link.


24 posted on 06/19/2016 3:59:47 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE! VOTE TRUMP, at least once!)
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To: onyx

Thanks Onyx. My uncle passed away in 1990. He was my dad’s older brother. I remember my dad saying his office was right across the hall from J Edgar Hoover.

He also let my mother fire a fully automatic machine gun in some firing range that was in the FBI building if I remember correctly.


25 posted on 06/19/2016 4:01:15 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Kid Shelleen

Their children grew up in a local town. I remember when I was young they would come out every year around this time and plead their parents innocence.

Funny, after the Russian government released many of their Cold War documents we did not hear that much from the boys. Evidently, there were guilty as hell.


26 posted on 06/19/2016 4:09:21 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Had much of the information that convicted the Rosenbergs gone public and not been sequestered for fifty years, McCarthy would have been validated that Communists had infiltrated the US government, the Truman administration, and many MSM outlets.


27 posted on 06/19/2016 4:09:54 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Kid Shelleen

Hopefully the chair was set to “extra crispy.”


28 posted on 06/19/2016 4:24:26 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
It wasn't only the Rosenbergs. There was this moron, amongst others, all of the same background: The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb
29 posted on 06/19/2016 4:24:31 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: Kid Shelleen

CUBA issued a postage stamp honoring these traitors.


30 posted on 06/19/2016 4:29:10 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

John Stommers book NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON is still relevant. Political Correctness is a barrier to not only social issues being discussed without reprisal, but a cover to silence criticism of the government and the overreach of the current democrat administration in seeking to control every aspect of American life. Just what is the criteria for treason in America in 2016? Our country is being given away, piece by piece to hordes of immigrants who are brought here without any say so of the American citizens who will be responsible for their upkeep for decades to come. I think it is treasonous to destroy the very structure of the United States by presidential fiat, along with the cooperation of those whom we have elected to stand against this misuse of govt power. I remember the Rosenberg execution and exactly where I was that day. I did not feel sorry for them then or now. Back then even democrats elected anti communists and together with the Republicans held back the red tide for another few years. Time is running out for taking back our govt. America is being ruled, not governed. Until, and unless, balance is restored to our government as the constitution intended, our nation will continue to decline. The pace for such is rapidly increasing. Four gun bills are before congress tomorrow.


31 posted on 06/19/2016 4:46:37 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: Ammo Republic 15

Thanks very much for telling me. He sounds like a very interesting and kind man. He sure led an intriguing life. God bless him and rest his soul.


32 posted on 06/19/2016 5:08:03 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE! VOTE TRUMP, at least once!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Dont get me started the NY City Council this should have made front page news.

Councilman Greenfield Denounces Anti-Semitic Outburst in NYC Council Chamber
33 posted on 06/19/2016 5:35:39 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: mountainfolk

That’s John Stormer!!

I have his 1968 paperback “Death of a Nation” given to me that same year. Also still relevant.


34 posted on 06/19/2016 6:43:16 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970

Thanks for the correction. My keyboard stuttered. Ha!


35 posted on 06/19/2016 7:40:12 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: dfwgator

Yep. Traitorous scum. And millions of people turned out worldwide in sympathy for them...but not one word of “Oh, yeah. I guess they were guilty after all.”

Being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry, or even admitting you were wrong.


36 posted on 06/19/2016 8:27:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (Embrace your Curmudgeonliness.)
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To: onyx; miss marmelstein

I read an excellent book on the Venona project...some if it remains cloudy, but some of it is so clear that rebuttal is impossible.

The Rosenberg information in Venona was one of those clear facets of it.


37 posted on 06/19/2016 8:38:11 PM PDT by rlmorel (Embrace your Curmudgeonliness.)
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To: mountainfolk

I think if Hillary wins, it’s going to get so bad that riots will start breaking out in regular occurrence in cities across the nation and eventually it will explode into an open revolt and its going to be extremely ugly because it’s going to be focused on pure anarchy, looting, killing rather than overthrowing the government. A lot of people are going to die unless some kind of leadership miraculously takes hold to focus it on overthrowing the government. It’s going to happen, absolutely if she wins, i cannot possibly see it not. She is a woman whose expertise is in creating absolute disasters of the worst kind and sometimes I wonder if she does it deliberately like what she did to the middle east, she’s an absolute psychopath.


38 posted on 06/20/2016 7:00:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

To bad more commies didn’t join them.


39 posted on 06/21/2016 1:05:29 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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