Activists Mark 1953 Rosenberg Execution

Dayton Daily News/Associated Press ^ | 6/17/03 | JIM FITZGERALD

[nopardons]

Me ? I know nothing ... NOTHING !

Maybe he just couldn't stand the onslaught of facts any longer and gave up. :-)

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I think...he started agreeing with us. Last I saw he was criticizing liberals....

[StopGlobalWhining]

Does anyone know if the LIGHTS DIMMED in New York City when the Switch was Thrown???

They didn't dim in Yankee Stadium that night. I was there. It was only after the game ended (10 or 11 innings if I remember correctly), as we were coming out of the stadium, that we saw the swarm of newspaper vendors yelling Extra-Extra with the news that the executions had taken place.

[DPB101]

Were you old enough to know the sentiment of the general public? From lefties we hear the country was outraged over the executions.

[HISSKGB]

We were too upset about the Korean War and wondering who swung China into communist hands to think about the Rosenbergs. When the newspapers announced the executions, we figured it happened because of their spying and went on to worry about more important things.

Add on: We were really shocked when Truman fired MacArthur!

[StopGlobalWhining]

Were you old enough to know the sentiment of the general public? From lefties we hear the country was outraged over the executions.

Yes. I was from NE PA at the time, and folks there for the most part were happy to see these traitors get their due punishment. My father had driven us to the game. He was pretty happy about the events that night. He worked for Mr. Hoover, and had been in the Manhattan office until being transferred to PA a few years earlier.

HISSKGB summed up nicely the sentiment of the overwhelming majority of the general public at the time.

[ricpic]

A regular Horatio Alger-Hiss that Powell.

[ricpic]

"Wish AP would get it's headlines right."

AP knows exactly what it's doing calling communists activists. At the very least it is sympathetic. At worst, in the same mold.

[Navy Patriot]

If I am wrong

You are right, and it nearly cost us big time, as in 1962 the Soviets were prepared to land several large thermonuke warheads on the continental U.S.

[Brian Allen]

Hah.

You got it in one!

[You've been boning up on your Edmund Bourke, again]

[And many's the True Word said in jest]

[jonalvy44]

Sarandon continues to commit career suicide. We hope to get a detailed list of all Hollywood attendees...

[DPB101]

Most are has beens. Tovah Feldshuh and Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) were there.

[Brian Allen]

And probably on your Burke, too, come to think about it.

[EveningStar]

Does anyone know what really happened to the children of the Rosenbergs?

Here's the story:

They opened a chain of import stores and named it ...

(Drumroll)

...Traitor Jews

My Jewish wife swatted me when I told her that. :)

[DPB101]

As she should have!

Obviously they were export outlets.

:-)

[MEG33]

#18 and 19 have good links