Word: meeropol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YOUR SONS: THE LEGACY OF ETHEL AND JULIUS ROSENBERG by ROBERT and MICHAEL MEEROPOL 419 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Robert and Michael Meeropol have been refused many documents, chiefly from the CIA and the FBI, that they believe would clear the names of their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as nuclear spies. Historian Allen Weinstein of Smith College, who has tried in vain for three years to open up the FBI files on the Rosenberg and Alger Hiss cases, complains: "The amendments haven't made any change as far as I can tell." Historian James MacGregor Burns agrees. After failing for two years to force the State Department to release thousands of pages...
...constantly reread the history of the case and I always hope that the Supreme Court will side with Justice Douglas and review the whole thing. But it never happens that way." The speaker is Michael Meeropol. Originally his name was Michael Rosenberg. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were electrocuted when he was ten years old. Their crime, according to Judge Irving R. Kaufman who sentenced them to death, was nothing less than helping to precipitate the Korean War, thus causing over 50,000 American lives to be lost, and "altering the course of history to the disadvantage of our country...
...controversy over the Rosenberg Case will not simply subside. Michael and Robert Meeropol have made clear their intention to press for a full investigation. While the damage done to them can never be undone, it is still of great importance that the government, at the very least, reopen the case...