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...YOUR SONS: THE LEGACY OF ETHEL AND JULIUS ROSENBERG by ROBERT and MICHAEL MEEROPOL 419 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Shortly before 9 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Columnist Bob Considine stepped in front of newsreel cameras set up outside the walls of Sing Sing Prison to give his eyewitness account of the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The old pro obliged his audience with a few grisly details and a note of piety. "Ethel Rosenberg," he said, "met her maker and will have a lot of explaining...
Shocking Facts. The Rosenbergs' two children, Michael, 10, and Robert, 6, were left to history. Now, under the name of the couple who adopted them (Anne and Abel Meeropol), Robert, 28, and Michael, 32, have come forward with a Rosenberg book of their own. It is anything but a literary experience. Half of the book consists of Ethel's and Julius' death-house letters. These are interspersed with the sons' rather sketchy autobiographies, plus a long revisionist analysis of the cold war by Michael, who holds a Ph.D. in economics...
Robert and Michael Meeropol have been refused many documents, chiefly from the CIA and the FBI, that they believe would clear the names of their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as nuclear spies. Historian Allen Weinstein of Smith College, who has tried in vain for three years to open up the FBI files on the Rosenberg and Alger Hiss cases, complains: "The amendments haven't made any change as far as I can tell." Historian James MacGregor Burns agrees. After failing for two years to force the State Department to release thousands of pages...
...David Rosenberg '75 said yesterday that the department makes it difficult to get advice and help. They don't make restrictions, but they are not very helpful with advice unless they are cornered...