In 1950, with the US in the throes of the Red Scare, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a seemingly ordinary couple, find themselves the target of anti-Communist loathing. Based on testimony by
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In 1950, with the US in the throes of the Red Scare, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a seemingly ordinary couple, find themselves the target of anti-Communist loathing. Based on testimony by Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, the Rosenbergs are arrested by the FBI. The couple is accused of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the USSR. On Friday June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair. Julius first, then Ethel. 30 years later, the truth finally comes out. Declassified FBI archives reveal that Ethel was not guilty of being a spy; she was merely married to one.
