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There are two key questions which dominate the present controversy. Was the case in its entirety a frameup concocted by the F.B.I.? Or, if indeed espionage did take place, was it really of such consequence that the death penalty should even have been considered? The answer to the second question was stated succinctly by scientist Phillip Morrison who holds a co-patent on the atomic bomb, on the television program The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: "There is no secret to the atomic bomb." Clearly the Rosenbergs were executed for invalid reasons in the sense that...
...persistently that Manzie seized hold of one; then Barbara joined the melee, and it finally took a dozen U.S. marshals to restore peace. Two days later, claiming that her career had been devastated and that many bookings had been canceled, Barbara declared that the whole thing was an inexplicable frameup. "I do not use narcotics of any kind," she said. "I mean, I hardly even drink...
...affair, marred by an inept defense and an inexperienced judge in a lynchlike atmosphere. Crucial facts, such as fixing the time of death, were botched by his attorney. The case against him, Smith suggests, was founded on shoddy police investigatory work and was somewhat in the nature of a frameup. The actual bases of his many appeals for a rehearing and retrial, which have kept him alive these many years, involve improper trial procedures and the applicability of the Supreme Court rulings regarding forced confession and post-indictment police interrogations...
...answer to a question after the speech in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Lamont called the Gulf of Tonkin incident "one of the most improbable tales I've heard in several years." He charged that the affair was really "just a frameup by the military designed to make the United States more involved in Vietnam...
...claimed a frameup, but the key issue at the trial was whether or not the murder had been premeditated. Webster later conceded that he had struck Parkman with a stick of wood as a result of the later's abusiveness, but he stoutly maintained that he had not intended to kill him. The jury was out for only three hours. All Boston thrilled to see a Harvard professor kicking on the gallows of the Leverett Street jail...