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...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...
...Supreme Court moved to straighten out the troubled lives of the two sons of executed Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The boys, Michael, 11, and Robert. 6. were given by the Rosenberg's defense attorney, the late Emanuel Bloch. to a Manhattan couple, Songwriter Abel (Strange Fruit) Meeropol and his wife. The Society for the Prevention of-Cruelty to Children charged that, in the hands of the Meeropols, the two orphans were ruthlessly exploited by Communist groups as fund-raising tools and propaganda sob stories. This week State Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally asked the children...