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elleng

(130,908 posts)
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 02:27 PM Oct 2016

*Watch Ethel Rosenberg's sons make the case

on 60 Minutes Oct 16th, for why President Obama should exonerate their mother, whom we now know was not a spy. Sun, Oct 16, 7pm ET/PT, on CBS.

See a preview of Anderson Cooper's interview with Ethel's sons here: http://www.cbsnews.com/…/60-minutes-preview-the-brothers-r…/

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*Watch Ethel Rosenberg's sons make the case (Original Post) elleng Oct 2016 OP
Well, we know Julius was a spy. That has long since been settled. Warpy Oct 2016 #1
NO DOUBT about Ethel, I just learned. elleng Oct 2016 #5
Well, given that Trump's nasty mentor, Roy Cohn prosecuted them, I'd guess their only hope for such hlthe2b Oct 2016 #2
Using normal std of proof Foggyhill Oct 2016 #3
She wasn't, just learned. elleng Oct 2016 #6
On now! elleng Oct 2016 #4
New Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony Released! July 14, 2015 elleng Oct 2016 #7
He admitted on 60 Minutes that he sold our his sister avebury Oct 2016 #8
Yes he did. elleng Oct 2016 #9

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
1. Well, we know Julius was a spy. That has long since been settled.
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 02:54 PM
Oct 2016

There is serious doubt about Ethel.

hlthe2b

(102,277 posts)
2. Well, given that Trump's nasty mentor, Roy Cohn prosecuted them, I'd guess their only hope for such
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 03:16 PM
Oct 2016

would be with Obama. And, I do believe there has always been doubt about Ethel's level of involvement.

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)
3. Using normal std of proof
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 03:31 PM
Oct 2016

She should not have been declared culpable

She may have been a spy but they didn't prove it so she should be exonerated

elleng

(130,908 posts)
7. New Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony Released! July 14, 2015
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 08:10 PM
Oct 2016

David Greenglass Transcript Opened by Court Order in Case Brought by National Security Archive and Historical/Archival Associations

Greenglass testimony at trial helped send his sister Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair, but to the grand jury he said the opposite: “I never spoke to my sister about this at all.”

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20150714-Rosenberg-spy-case-Greenglass-testimony/

Saved his wife instead.

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