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A 4 page paper. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for selling secrets to the Russian government. This paper reports some of the aspects of their trial and comments on why their trial was neither fair nor just. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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hunts going on throughout the country but with a particular focus on the entertainment industry. McCarthy and his gang were calling all persons who had ever attended a meeting of
a Communist cell before the panel. The Rosenbergs were the scapegoats for all the frustrations. Like thousands of others, the Rosenbergs joined the Communist Party out of frustration about what
Hitler was doing (Barnett, 2003), not to overthrow the government. Years later, Ethels bother recanted his testimony, saying he was pressured by the prosecution to testify as he had. Aiuto
(n.d.) commented that "there had to be a Rosenberg Case cause there had to be an intensification of the hysteria in America to make the Korean War acceptable to the
American people." The same author pointed out that everyone associated with the case were "unattractive, unsympathetic, and sad people" (Aiuto, n.d.). Many on the prosecution side "behaved dishonorably, cruelly, and
without pity" (Aiuto, n.d.) in an effort to get Ethel to get Julius to confess (Aiuto, n.d.). Julius Rosenberg was arrested first on July 17, 1950 and Ethel Rosenberg was
arrested on August 11, 1950 (Aiuto, n.d.). A their defendant was Morton Sobell, accused of conspiring with the Rosenbergs (Aiuto, n.d.). The judge was Irving R. Kaufman and it was
he who delivered a sentence of death (Aiuto, n.d.). The prosecutor was Irving H. Saypol, who had also prosecuted Alger Hiss and others for being Communists (Aiuto, n.d.). Saypols
assistant was Roy Cohn, who was McCarthys assistant (Aiuto, n.d.). The jury did not have a single Jew on the panel, although both the Rosenbergs were Jewish (Aiuto, n.d.). The
attorney for the Julius Rosenberg was Emanuel Bloch and his father, Alexander Bloch was Ethels lawyer, neither of them had experience with large media type cases (Aiuto, n.d.). The evidence
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