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...ROSENBERG case is news again. Two television programs, a best-selling book, numerous magazine articles, and the refusal of the F B I to release their files on the case, all in the past year, have helped to rekindle the controversy. The reasons for this renewed attention are not difficult to understand. With the emergence from the Cold War period, the McCarthy era mentality which made communism a dirty word--even a frightening word--has largely faded away. The detente orientation of American foreign policy makes it natural for an average citizen to see the Rosenbergs in a less hostile...
...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...
...Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950 and charged with having been ring-leaders of a Soviet spying organization which during the Second World War succeeded in pilfering what was then referred to as "the secret of the atomic bomb." They were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The case turned on two key witnesses. One was David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, who cooperated with the government and sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in return for a reduced sentence. The other was Harry Gold, a self-confessed spy who also traded his testimony...
Despite their crude attempts to throw potential detractors off-guard, Magnum Force's Ted Post and The Seven-Ups' Phil D'Antoni, as well as The Laughing Policeman's Stuart Rosenberg, are interested mainly in zapping their audiences. Force's liberal apologia count for naught when the director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used...
Unquiet Death of Jullus and Ethel Rosenberg. Ch.2, 9:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...