Word: meeropol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole thing is the Freedom of Information Act. If we can just get our hands on the FBI files, I'm convinced we can prove the innocence of our parents." The speaker was Michael Meeropol, the eldest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's two sons--Meeropol, and his brother, Robert, who were adopted a few years after their parents were electrocuted in 1953, vehemently oppose "liberal explanations" of the Rosenberg case. "I know there's a tendency to adopt a middle-of-the-road analysis now and argue that the Rosenbergs were probably small-time espionage agents who certainly didn...
Shocking Facts. The Rosenbergs' two children, Michael, 10, and Robert, 6, were left to history. Now, under the name of the couple who adopted them (Anne and Abel Meeropol), Robert, 28, and Michael, 32, have come forward with a Rosenberg book of their own. It is anything but a literary experience. Half of the book consists of Ethel's and Julius' death-house letters. These are interspersed with the sons' rather sketchy autobiographies, plus a long revisionist analysis of the cold war by Michael, who holds a Ph.D. in economics...
...Meeropol boys offer no new evidence that might clear their parents' name. Many of the Rosenbergs' letters have been published before. Some were circulated to generate sympathy during the long appeal process. Tune has not been kind to Ethel's and Julius' prose, either. Embarrassingly personal passages about the torments of separation from each other and from their children bleed profusely into the strident hyperbole of 1930s left-wing rhetoric. An occasional sentence survives questions of guilt, innocence and politics. On a visit to Sing Sing, the older Michael vented his ten-year...
...have to make a real effort to call them my adoptive parents," says Robert, the younger Meeropol. "It feels like an unnatural act to me." He is talking about Songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, who lost their own two children at birth and took the frightened Rosenberg boys to live with them six months after the execution. Anne, who died last year, and Abel, now living in Miami, were the best thing that could have happened to the orphans. Abel diverted the boys with stories, inventing characters like Rocky Head, Tomato Nose and a dog named Hungry Soup...
...think it is an accident that we are both married, with kids," says Robert, who wed at 20. Both brothers share the household duties. Ann Meeropol teaches English to immigrants; Elli has written a yet-to-be-published article about Ethel Rosenberg for Ms. magazine, making the ironic observation that prison liberated her from housework and allowed her to write...