National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case
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rosenbergtrial.org
NCRRC
c/o Corey
P.O. Box 1100
New York, NY 101103
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 The Anatomy & Achitecture of June 19, 1953 by David Wojnarowicz, 1987.
". . . we will never lend ourselves to be tools to implicate innocent people, to confess crimes we never did and to help fan the flames of hysteria and help the growing witch hunt."
                     From a letter from Julius to Ethel, December 7, 1952
 

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THE COMMITTEE
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THE TRIAL
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verdict
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CURRENT ACTIVITY

 
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FURTHER RESEARCH
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players 1
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letters
bibliography
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 PICTURE GALLERIES
gallery 1: happier days
gallery 2:  under siege
gallery 3: additional pics
gallery 4: art work

 
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 CASE FOR THE DEFENSE

The Rosenbergs were sentenced for crimes that they were not tried for.
The prosecution used accomplice and perjured testimony.
There were no atomic "secrets" that David Greenglass could transmit.
Judge Kaufman's contamination of the judicial process.
The McCarran Act prejudiced the jury process and the Rosenberg Testimony.
Ethel's death sentence was a "lever" against Julius.
FBI documents show that the Supreme Court was compromised by the Justice Department.
The Rosenbergs were tried under the wrong law in order to facilitate
 the use of the death penalty.

  APPEALS

time line
the console table
1917 law vs. 1946 law
the final week
for the record

 
THE PLAYERS
PLAYERS 1
DEFENDANTS
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
Morton Sobell

PROSECUTORS
Herbert Brownell
Irving Saypol
Roy Cohn

WITNESSES
David Greenglass
Ruth Greenglass
Harry Gold
Max Elitcher

SUPREME COURT

PLAYERS 2
ATTORNEYS
Emanuel Bloch
Marshall Perlin

JUDGE
Irving R. Kaufman

OTHER PLAYERS
Klaus Fuchs
J. Edgar Hoover
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
The Rosenbergs' Sons
Michael Meeropol 
Robert Meeropol

DOCUMENTS
Treason Defined (U.S. Constitution)
The 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments (U.S. Constitution)
1917 Espionage Act
The Smith Act (1940)
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946
The McCarran Internal Security Act 1950
President Truman's veto statememt
R. H. Macy's Console Table Document
Dr. Harold Urey's telegram
President Eisenhower's Two Clemency Refusals
Justice Douglas's Dissenting Opinion
Justices Black and Frankfurter: Dissenting Opinions
Changing the Time of Execution
Front page text, The Worker, June 21, 1953
M. Perlin's Testmony (Congressional Hearings 1982)
Rosenberg Cantata and Opera by Leonard Lehrman
ABA Moot Court Trial 1993
The Venona Papers
Morton Sobell on Venona
Robert Meeropol on Venona
Michael Meeropol: 
      The Significance of the Rosenberg Case
Justice Department's letter plus NCRRC's response
60 Minutes II Interview with David Greenglass

TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS
Julius Rosenberg's Testimony
Ethel Rosenberg's Testimony
David Greenglass's Testimony
Ruth Greenglass's Testimony
Harry Gold's Testimony
Evelyn Cox's Testimony
Prosecution's Exhibits 6, 7 and 8
Bloch's Summation
The Verdict
Judge Kaufman's Sentencing Statement

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LETTERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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