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...know that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the Depression-era bank robbers and murderers, were really a couple of lovable kids who just got their stars crossed. The movies told us so. Now audiences are to be instructed in the exemplary lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Sure they were convicted and executed for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. But we know that the 1950s were a time of anti-Red hysteria; the sitting judge on the Rosenberg case might have been Joe McCarthy. How do we know? Daniel tells us so. Alas for Sidney Lumet...
...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...
...world. The standard explanation for the extreme penalty is that the Korean War and the militant anti-Communism of the early '50s created a climate of fear and vengeance. But there is also ample evidence that the threat of electrocution was tactical. Ethel was arrested shortly after Julius. Federal authorities evidently hoped that the ineffectual-looking engineer would crack quickly if his wife were in jail and his bewildered children left at home. But the Rosenbergs never talked, even though confessions might have saved their lives...
...Judge Kaufman noted that he had searched his conscience for reasons why he should show mercy and he had found none. Therefore, he was sentencing both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to die in the electric chair some time during the week beginning Monday...
Borth the Rosenbergs had prepared for the possibility of Julius' receiving the maximum sentence. But despite the rumors in the newspapers, Ethel's sentence came as a terrible shock ... Visibly shaken and ashen-faced ... Ethel had tried to bolster her own and her husband's spirits by singing the aria Un bel di from Madame Butterfly in a clear though tremulous voice. Julius, no musician, had responded with The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a brave if rather grimly impersonal answer to Puccini's aria of love and longing...