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...sister of Julius Rosenberg and am responding to your book review of The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton [Aug. 22]. The lies and smears prevalent to this day have blinded Radosh and Milton to the truth of the Rosenbergs' total innocence...
...know that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the Depression-era bank robbers and murderers, were really a couple of lovable kids who just got their stars crossed. The movies told us so. Now audiences are to be instructed in the exemplary lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Sure they were convicted and executed for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. But we know that the 1950s were a time of anti-Red hysteria; the sitting judge on the Rosenberg case might have been Joe McCarthy. How do we know? Daniel tells us so. Alas for Sidney Lumet...
...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...
...verdict of The Rosenberg File is that there was no frame-up, although some of the evidence was tainted. Radosh and Milton also conclude that the penalty was inappropriate, in part because the Rosenbergs did not, as the prosecution maintained, give the vital secret of the bomb to the Soviet Union. In all likelihood, that was done by Physicist Klaus Fuchs, and he was sentenced to only 14 years. The authors answer many questions and satisfy much curiosity, but theirs is not a book that one can finish and say "Rest in peace." -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...Judge Kaufman noted that he had searched his conscience for reasons why he should show mercy and he had found none. Therefore, he was sentencing both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to die in the electric chair some time during the week beginning Monday...