[theDentist]

Oh yeah, I remember them....

[blau993]

I remember when Greenglass' book was published in 2001. I have never read it, and I'd be interested in the thoughts of those who have. My reaction was that this was a gesture by an old man trying to square himself with family and friends who have long blamed him for "betraying" the Rosenbergs. I did not find his recantation so many years after the fact believable.

As for Ethel's guilt or innocence, I think it is clear that she was guilty at some level -- if not of espionage itself, certainly of knowledge of her husband's espionage. I refuse to believe that any man who loved his wife (and, by all accounts, Julius loved Ethel) could allow her to go to her death if he believed her to be innocent.

[southland]

I just read the book by Win Ho Lee regarding the witch hunt that the Clintons and fellow travelers persecuted Mr Lee when there was no evidence that he did anything wrong.

I do , however, believe the Rosenbergs were gulty . I lost friends in th cold war that were a direct result of the Communists in our own government. Joseph McCarthy was mostly right about espionage in our government.

Joseph McCarthy exposed a lot of the communists in our own government and he exposed that fact when there was a question about our country falling under the communist banner.
I feel that McCarthy will one day be acknowledged for the good work that he did when our country was in a very perilious situation.

[Redbob]

They weren't "activists", they were SPIES!
They were traitors, and got what all traitors deserve.

The idea that Ehtel was framed by her brother is especially silly.

[GOP_1900AD]

Who are today's Rosenbergs and why are they not on death row?

[dfwgator]

Why didn't Jonathan Pollard and Aldrich Ames receive the same fate?

[Michael.SF.]

Let's remember Mrs. Rosenberg and they way she may have looked sitting in Old Sparky:

[Joee]

I was stationed at Quantico, Va. at the time and on a number of occasions went up to DC. The Communist Party brought a number of their people down from NY to picket the Justice Dept. They handed out pro Commie literature. At the same time, I knew of several Marine Officers, in civilian clothes, that drove their cars around the demonstrators with signs on them i.e. "FRY the SPIES. etc, which is just what happened. I do recall, some tense times in DC with actions taken against the Commie dupes.

[sticker]

If anyone reads "The Sword and The Shield" they can see that both the Rosenbergs deserved what they got.

[Snickersnee]

I remember walking home in front of the White House with my father on the evening the Rosenbergs were executed. It was a cool and drizzly day. A bunch of CPUSA members had been bused down from NYC to walk a long, oval picket-line in front of the WH carrying "Save the Rosenbergs" signs, chanting, etc.

As we drew near the gate on West Exec. Ave, a tall, well-dressed black man broke out of the pack and attempted to press a leaflet on my father. "Save the Rosenbergs, Sir? Save the Rosenbergs?" My USMC-vet father gave him a wicked Gunny-sergeant glare, and the guy sheepishly spun around and tried to hit some other passers-by.

We got up to the corner of 17th St. and my father stopped and looked back. "Mm. That was Paul Robeson," he said.

"Who?" I asked.

"Never mind," he explained.