Ethel Rosenberg: Supposedly a Spy (ep. 8.12)
Ethel Rosenberg was executed by electric chair for sending the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. America felt justified in view of the impending nuclear holocaust. But that holocaust has not yet happened, and documents and confessions have been declassified in dribbles over the decades, and the story is now very, very different than the one the jury heard.
In the show, I mention the Rosenberg Fund for Children which awards grants to the children of parents targeted as activitists. Their website is https://www.rfc.org/.
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