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...Your Sons is a provocative document, especially when read during the current decline of confidence in governmental ethics. The book's publication coincides with renewed activity to convince the public that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of a frame-up. Chapters of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case have sprung up round the country. Invoking the Freedom of Information Act, the Meeropols themselves have formally requested a number of Government agencies to unlock the Rosenberg files. The case seems due for one of its periodic flare...
...arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had recruited him to steal secrets from Los Alamos...
...trial and the ensuing appeals occurred in an atmosphere of national hysteria. Abroad, U.S. troops were battling in Korea; at home, Senator Joseph McCarthy was waving lists of "Communists" he said had invaded the State Department. The Rosenberg prosecution had little trouble presenting an apparently crushing case against the couple, as well as against Co-Defendant Morton Sobell, whose own account of the trial and his nearly 18 years in prison was published in On Doing Time (1974). The Rosenbergs repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment when asked if they belonged to the Communist Party. Greenglass, the Government's star...
...have to make a real effort to call them my adoptive parents," says Robert, the younger Meeropol. "It feels like an unnatural act to me." He is talking about Songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, who lost their own two children at birth and took the frightened Rosenberg boys to live with them six months after the execution. Anne, who died last year, and Abel, now living in Miami, were the best thing that could have happened to the orphans. Abel diverted the boys with stories, inventing characters like Rocky Head, Tomato Nose and a dog named Hungry Soup...
...Cover. Despite the long hair and mustaches, the original family resemblance is there. At times, Michael shares Ethel's expression of willed serenity; Robert has Julius' eyes and nose. Both have had fine educations paid for out of a trust fund set up 22 years ago by Rosenberg Defense Lawyer Emanuel Bloch. Robert has a degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Michael studied economics at Swarthmore and read history at King's College, Cambridge, where he lived in rooms above E.M. Forster. "He once complained my parties were too loud, but when I explained...