Julius And Ethel Rosenberg Case

Fear, paranoia, and propaganda all dominated the 1940's and 1950's due to McCarthy and his dominating force of communist fear. Many normal families were scared of being ‘caught' a communist, or even worse, communist spies. Yet, there was one couple that was affected more than any if these terrified groups of people; they were the Rosenbergs. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a happily and lovingly married Jewish couple that had been married since 1939. But, on July 17th, 1950 Julius was arrested by the FBI in front of his two sons for conspiracy to commit espionage. Almost a month later Ethel was arrested for her supposed involvement. Accused of being Russian spies that had given Russia secret military information that mostly consisted of the USA's development of the atomic bomb; they put their hope of freedom in their lawyer, Emanual Bloch. Bloch would be relentless in his attempt to convince the jury of the Rosenbergs innocence, and later try to convince the legal system that consisted of the Appellate courts, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court Justices (and even the President) that the death sentence was too harsh of a sentence for the convicted crime; conspiracy to commit espionage. Though Bloch would try to be relentless with his version of the truth, the prosecution,
Her pose on the stand made it seem as if she was the real leader behind this supposed espionage conspiracy. Her testimony was mainly backing up her husband's testimony and denying all allegations on herself that were accused by the Greenglass'. She seemed cold and disdain while giving her version of the truth. The jury would have been more sympathetic to Mrs. Rosenberg if she had played the typical loving, obeying wife that they had all been picturing. Her own demeanor on the stand was what cost her her own freedom and put her with the same fate as her