How Today’s World Can Help Us See That There’s More to the Ethel Rosenberg Story
On June 19, 1953, Ethel Rosenberg was electrocuted, having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. In the scant three years between her arrest and her execution, this impoverished housewife moved from obscurity to internationally known figure of controversy. To the right, she was a commie spy who deserved her fate; to the left, a wronged wife who epitomized the collateral damage wrought by McCarthyite hysteria.
