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Leaders in "The Campaign to End the Death Penalty" include Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74 and Robert H. Meeropol, executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children...
...Meeropol is the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for conspiring to steal atomic bomb secrets...
Crowding the middle were historians, legal scholars, journalists and even a novelist-E.L. Doctorow, whose Book of Daniel used fact as a springboard to fiction. In 1975 the Rosenbergs' sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol (the name of their adoptive parents), published a memoir of their frightening childhoods. The appearance of We Are Your Sons coincided with a campaign to clear the Rosenberg name and with the Meeropols' successful suit to examine previously closed Government files...
...would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss) and We Are Your Sons by Robert and Michael Meeropol (for the Rosenbergs, who were indeed the Meeropols' parents). There is always the hope of posthumous vindication: Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927, but only two years ago, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis proclaimed that because of prejudice in their trial no stigma should attach to their memory...
Susan Redes, a spokesman for the teach-in committee, said yesterday that she expects Meeropol will discuss the Rosenberg case and its relation to domestic intelligence activities. Eqbal Ahmad, she said, will speak on international intelligence practices...