Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet prop
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1951
The corner of Orchard and Rivington streets, Lower East Side, 2005
Mugshot of Julius Rosenberg
Mugshot of Ethel Rosenberg, arrested during grand jury proceedings
Robert Meeropol
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Robert Meeropol is an American anthropologist, progressive activist, and author. He is the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius was an elect
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
…working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, was convicted in the United Kingdom. For decades, many supporters—including the Rosenbergs' sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol—sought exoneration from multiple U.S. presidents. While they originally maintained that both parents were innocent, they later acknowledged Julius's…
Meeropol in 2007
Meeropol in the Earlham College yearbook, 1967
Meeropol (center) visits East Berlin, East Germany, accompanied by Morton Sobell (left), Marshall Perlin (second from left, behind) and Franz Loeser [de] (right), April 19, 1976
Robert Meeropol (2009) holding copy of Government Exhibit 8 from the Rosenberg trial, the cross-sectional drawing of an atomic bomb, which was said to be the "secret of the atomic bomb" the Rosenbergs had passed to the Soviet Union.