Tuesday, June 19, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair at Ossining (Sing Sing) prison, a half hour north of NYC, for passing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Although Ethel was more co-conspirator than spy, there is no doubt that they were traitors and the sentence appropriate, despite what an ever shrinking number of apologists and useful idiots say. Since Venona intercepts and even Khruschev's memoirs make the couple's guilt clear, the current lefty fashion is to claim that the secrets they passed were not that useful to the Soviets. OK, I'll bite--they were ineffectual traitors and spies.
Labels: Atomic Spies; Rosenberg execution
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:08 AM 
