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COMING IN JUNE - Heir To An Execution: A Granddaughter's Story Premieres Monday, June 14th at 8pm ET/PT Chronicles the efforts of filmmaker Ivy Meeropol to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her father's parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as traitors after being convicted of providing atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. I just saw the promo. for this,full of aging Commies saying things like "they were nice people","just like you and me"and "witch-hunt. Looks like another attempt to rehabilitate these two traitors.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's Un-American Legacy By Edward Renehan, Jr. Mr. Renehan is the author of several books, most recently The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945, published by Doubleday. His home on the web is http://renehan.blogspot.com. Robert Meeropol - a Springfield, Massachusetts attorney and the younger son of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - is the founder and administrator of an interesting and ironic institution. Launched in 1990, the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) exists, according to its mission statement, "to provide for the educational and emotional needs of children whose parents have suffered because of their progressive activities and...

<p>MORE than 50 years after they were executed as So viet spies, the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg continues to generate intense emotion on both sides of the political spectrum. For the left, it has long been an article of faith that two wholly innocent radicals were framed and executed solely because of their politics.</p>

MORE than 50 years after they were executed as So viet spies, the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg continues to generate intense emotion on both sides of the political spectrum. For the left, it has long been an article of faith that two wholly innocent radicals were framed and executed solely because of their politics. Now, the couple's granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol, has made a documentary that largely reinforces that viewpoint. Heir to an Execution, which premieres Monday on HBO, is a portrait of two people so filled with love and warmth they couldn't possibly have betrayed their country.

Last week Robert Meeropol visited the University of Maryland to excoriate the United States’ War on Terrorism. Don’t fret if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Meeropol isn’t a mainstream figure in American politics, academia or the arts. His opinion was sought not for any particular experience or expertise he can bring to the subject. Meeropol was selected for the forum on a more superficial basis: His parents were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the American Communist Party members turned Soviet spies who were executed for helping Soviets acquire the secrets of the atom bomb.Meeropol (he took the name of the...

Defending civil rights and protecting affirmative action policies are important because these issues affect the country's future, a spokeswoman for Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Illinois, says. "Civil Rights Under Fire" is the topic for a speech to be given by Moseley-Braun on campus tonight. The speech will focus on affirmative action as a way for people to fulfill their job potentials, Susan Lindauer, spokeswoman for Moseley-Braun, said. Lindauer said Moseley-Braun defends affirmative action policies because these policies help women and minorities get more jobs and education. She said the senator will speak about women and minorities, who benefit most from these...

A little bit of embarrassment seems to be in order: An article in Sunday's L.A. Times Calendar section (seems to be unavailable unless you're a subscriber) reports on a new documentary about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ("an exceptional documentary, short-listed for this year's Academy Award, a compelling emotional narrative laced with explosive political material"), who were convicted in the 1950s of spying for the Soviets, and executed for it. The documentary was directed by their granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol. The article is not by any means entirely pro-Rosenberg, but I was still struck by the second paragraph below: But what...

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer PARK CITY, Utah - Few filmmakers examining their family history in a documentary would find themselves in the thick of the Academy Awards (news - web sites) race. When your grandparents are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, though, the subject resonates far outside the immediate family. Ivy Meeropol's "Heir to an Execution" chronicles her effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her father's parents, executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. "I grew up with this. It was always...

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg: A Son's Desperate Search for Innocence Discovers Anything But Book Review 'An Execution in the Family': Faithful Son of the Rosenbergs Reviewed By DOROTHY GALLAGHER One Son's Journey By Robert Meeropol. Illustrated. 273 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press. $25.95. Here we are, a half-century on since the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs are truly historical figures now, but for a small fraction of the population their fate still has the power to generate yesterday's heat. Were the Rosenbergs framed? Did they do anything? If they did do anything, was it anything much?...

Here we are, a half-century on since the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs are truly historical figures now, but for a small fraction of the population their fate still has the power to generate yesterday's heat. Were the Rosenbergs framed? Did they do anything? If they did do anything, was it anything much? Robert Meeropol, the younger son of the Rosenbergs, has lived his life close to home -- that is, among people who believed his parents were innocents, martyrs to a government bent not on catching Soviet spies but on crushing political dissent. Given the evidence...

"It was taken for granted among us that [Julius and Ethel Rosenberg] were guilty. We had this kind of double thinking. While they were guilty, of course they were innocent. They were framed. Because anyone ... indicted by the capitalists was ipso facto framed." -- Ronald Radosh quoting John Gates, member of the U.S. Communist Party's central committee, in The Rosenberg File. You'd think this verdict, coming from a bona fide red-diaper New York intellectual, would end the argument over this notorious duo, who went defiantly to their execution in 1953. But the campaign to deify the Rosenbergs and other...

Senator Joseph McCarthy rose from obsurity, flared briefly as a crusader against Communist infiltrators, and died young, villified and rebuked. For years his name has been the ultimate "nuke" from the Left: "MaCarthyism..." And yet... recent revelations seem to show that if anything old "tailgunner Joe" underestimated the numbers infiltrators in the government... what's the truth?     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/934207/posts Joe McCarthy Was RightNewsMax (via email) | June 23, 2003 | NewsMax     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/933775/posts Joe McCarthy Vindicated, Againwww.chuckmorse.com ^ | June 20, 2003, | Chuck Morse     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/932950/posts The Origins of McCarthyismThe Weekly Standard ^ | 06/30/03 | Robert...

Guilt of the SonBy David HorowitzFrontPageMagazine.com | June 23, 2003 Last week frontpagemag.com posted an “Open Letter to the Rosenberg Son,” written by Ronald Radosh in response to the newly published memoir -- An Execution in the Family --- by Robert Meeropol who has kept the name of the adoptive parents who raised him after the death of his own. Among the adverse reactions to Radosh’s article was an email from Harold Meyerson, editor of The American Prospect, Bill Moyers’ vanguard publication for the Democratic Party’s socialist caucus. In the “Open Letter,” Radosh had written: In the end the truth...

50 Years Later: Rosenberg ReduxBy Greg YardleyFrontPageMagazine.com | June 20, 2003 Fifty years ago last night, the government of the United States executed two of the most contemptible figures of the Cold War, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.  And exactly fifty years later - that is, last night - the leftovers of the Cold War's losing side gathered, to wage the latest round of a decades-long struggle to exonerate their dead.  A 'major cultural program' to commemorate the Rosenbergs was held in New York City's City Center.  Michael and Robert Meeropol, the Rosenbergs' two sons, were the star attraction; an array...

NEW YORK — The 50th anniversary of the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on charges of conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb was commemorated yesterday at the City Center in Manhattan in a program that included the couple's two sons. The June 19, 1953, executions of the Rosenbergs in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining took place at the height of the Cold War McCarthy era. Last night's program, performed on a stage with a portrait of the Rosenberg couple emblazoned against the backdrop of an American flag, combined readings from the...

Thursday, June 19 @ 8pm ET/PT David Greenglass: Twice a Traitor On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In their trial, the primary witness against Ethel was her brother, David Greenglass. Greenglass was also convicted of spying and sentenced to prison, but he was released in 1960. Now, he's finally telling his side of the story. This is David Greenglass's extraordinary story, including the shocking revelation that he lied on the stand and sent his own sister to the electric chair! TV G

An Open Letter to the Rosenberg SonBy Ronald RadoshFrontPageMagazine.com | June 18, 2003 Dear Robert: It has been fifty years since your parents’ execution, and it is understandable that as the son whom their actions betrayed -- along with their country -- you should still cling to the idea of their innocence. But in the decades since 1953, we have learned much about your father, Julius Rosenberg, and the contributions he made to the Soviet Union as an active espionage agent. We also know, contrary to what you claim in your new book An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey, that...

It was fifty years ago today that the traitor Rosenbergs were justly dispatched to hell where, I am sure, they will suffer for all time and where they will be joined by their children, who refuse to atone for and continue to support, the sins of their parents. Let's raise a glass in celebration that, at the very least, a few traitors suffered the fate deserved by all of their kind. And let us all join together in praying that soon others of their kind: Jane Fonda and John Walker Lindh, for example, are soon sent to be with their...

On June 19, 1953, six-year-old Robert Meeropol was shooed outside to play ball with a friend while his father and mother were being executed. AFP/Intercontinentale/File Photo Robert's parents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose execution for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union remains, for many, an enduring symbol of the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era. In a memoir published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Rosenbergs' death by electric chair, Meeropol recalls watching television at a friend's house with his elder brother Michael when news flashed across the screen that their parents' final appeal had been...

On June 19, 1953, as the Yankees were playing the Chicago White Sox in Yankee Stadium, not too many miles "up the river", 2,000 volts of electricity was surging through the bodies of liberal left-wing traitors, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The question on this 50th anniversary of the Rosenbergs punishment is "Who did more damage to US national security - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, or Bill and Hillary Clinton? The stench of ammonia saturated the air. Ammonia and death. Before the three jolts of electricity killed him, Julius had urinated involuntarily and now the guard was mopping the floor and...