Word: radosh
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce...
NONFICTION: Andropov, Zhores A. Medvedev -The Book of America, Neal B. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
...retrospective books, articles, and essays. Seen from this distance, the trial seems to have serious implications for our democratic ideals and for our foreign relations with the Russians. Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to an Inquest, a revised edition with new evidence suggesting the Rosenbergs' innocence, and Ron Radosh and Joyce Milton's The Rosenberg File, arguing their guilt, have drawn particular attention. In addition, this month in New York City's Town Hall, these two couples will debate the issue anew...
Even setting aside the blatant disregard in all these moves for basic constitutional, first amendment rights, the coincidence of this hightening with the revival of interest in the Rosenberg case crystallizes a bitter irony. Much of the evidence for the Schneirs' new chapter and for the Radosh and Milion work--as well as for articles in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time Magazine and others--would never have come to light if not for the release, after a legal battle lasting eight years, of more than 160,000 pages of previously classified FBI documents concerning the Rosenbergs. These contain...
...with the prosecution or evidence that prosecution witnesses changed their stories innumerable times--a fact largely ignored by the FBI--will not bring the Rosenbergs back to life nor even provide a definitive interpretation of what happened. Historical revisionism can still allow two different parties, like the Schneirs and Radosh and Milton, to come to completely different conclusions about the justice of the verdict. But the arguments and discussions already generated by these disclosures are a perfect example of the need for a strong open information policy...