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(On This Day In History) June 19, 1953 - Atomic Bomb Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed
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Posted on 06/19/2007 11:09:54 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER
Ah yes... thr good ole days when they really did execute traitors.
To: Graybeard58
To: DogByte6RER
Appropriately, Julius Rosenberg’s KGB code name was LIBERAL.
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posted on
06/19/2007 11:42:40 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Diversity in theory is the enemy of diversity in practice.)
To: ozzymandus
Guess their fellow-travelers have died off or become environmentalists. Their sons were adopted by a fellow Communist named Abel Meeropol.
He is famous for having written the lyrics to Strange Fruit - a song popularized by Billie Holiday.
Their older son, Michael, is a Marxist professor of economics at Western New England College and a leftwing radio commentator.
Their younger son, Robert, was a leader in the anti-Vietnam movement (he was associated with John Kerry in those days) became the editor of The Socialist Review and is now a criminal defense attorney in MA.
Ivy, Michael's daughter, is a documentary filmmaker who made a film about her family and her grandparents' "moral innocence" entitled Heirs To An Execution. She also made an anti-Bush documentary about Congress entitled The Hill.
Robert's daughter Rachel is an attorney for the Center For Constitutional Rights - a Marxist legal partnership whose best-known partners are the late William Kunstler and Ron Kuby.
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posted on
06/19/2007 11:43:47 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("Pearl Harbor is all America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
To: DogByte6RER
I remember sitting on the bed in my grandmother’s bedroom and listening to the news coverage of the executions. Things like that can have a profound effect on a 12-year-old boy. I remember sitting in the same place and listening to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Some of the happiest days of my life were in that house, spending parts of my Summer vacation from school with them.
To: DogByte6RER
Nowadays, people give away top secrets just to score political points and try and win a Pulitzer.
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posted on
06/19/2007 11:51:57 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Sherman Logan
I sure am glad the Venona decrypts became available. Lots of liberal myths exploded.
To: wideawake
Ivy, Michael's daughter, is a documentary filmmaker who made a film about her family and her grandparents' "moral innocence" entitled Heirs To An Execution. The title should have been Heirs to the Crime of the Century
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posted on
06/19/2007 11:55:50 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
To: ozzymandus
She says that the only thing McCarthy got wrong was he underestimated the number of commies that had infiltrated the government.
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posted on
06/19/2007 11:56:37 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: ozzymandus
“It’s a damn shame that a few hundred more commies weren’t executed for treason. Hiss primarily.”
Don’t forget Klaus Fuchs, who was at the center of the Soviet espionage effort at Los Alamos that included Harry Gold, the Rosenbergs, and others. Fuchs confessed, and he was sentenced by the Brits to 14 years in prison and released after 9 years.
To: wideawake
Rotten apples don’t fall very far from the tree.
To: DogByte6RER
Would that every similarly dangerous traitor should meet the same fate.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:09:27 PM PDT
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TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: wideawake
The book “Mitrokin Archives” debunked the idea that the Rosenbergs were innocent, since the KGB archives showed he definitely was a spy and she knew.
To: jwparkerjr
“Some of the happiest days of my life were in that house..”
Because the 50s were the best years in America.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:49:53 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(America first, last and forever.)
To: Sherman Logan
He had two codenames. The other was “Engineer”. And I may be wrong, but wasn’t he, initially, an asset of the GRU doing industrial [especially signals/electronics] espionage?
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:59:20 PM PDT
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PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: riverdawg
Throw in Donald McLean, who was the British Embassy liaison with the U.S Atomic Energy program.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:02:19 PM PDT
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PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
She apparently recruited David Greenglass [her brother-in-law] to the ring. He was assigned to the Los Alamos project as a machinist.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:04:10 PM PDT
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PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: PzLdr
Yup. But I thought LIBERAL was more fun.
I’m not sure about the GRU stuff.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:12:56 PM PDT
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Sherman Logan
(Diversity in theory is the enemy of diversity in practice.)
To: PzLdr
Yup. But I thought LIBERAL was more fun.
I’m not sure about the GRU stuff.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:15:24 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Diversity in theory is the enemy of diversity in practice.)
To: Retired Greyhound
from what I’ve read, Julius was the spy. Ethel knew and approved, but wasn’t actively involved. The Feds tried to use her to get to Julius, but she wouldn’t flip, and Julius wouldn’t confess to save her. Both would likely have been spared the electric chair had they admitted guilt. They chose their fate, wanting to die as martyrs.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:17:02 PM PDT
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kms61
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