Make Executions Great Again: The Treason Execution of the Rosenbergs

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were a Jewish-American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.

They were both executed for espionage, aka; TREASON by the electric chair on June 19, 1953.

Supposedly the electric chair was more humane than hanging; but is was later disproved to be the exact opposite. Time to bring back hanging. Are you paying attention yet, Liz Cheney, Mark Milley, Nancy Pelosi and the entire DNC and uniparty RINOS?

In 1950, Truman administration officials arrested Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage. Specifically, the serious charges concerned passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and thereby causing the Korean War. Upon his inauguration in January 1953, Dwight Eisenhower inherited both the unpopular war and the problematic case. While he managed to bring the war to a close, the president struggled to manage the global image of the United States concerning the Rosenbergs. He had two opportunities to weigh in on whether Julius and Ethel would live or die. How he grappled with this case provides a fascinating lens into Eisenhower’s presidential decision-making process.

Lori Clune is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fresno. She is author of Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World (Oxford University Press, 2016). Clune has written numerous articles and book chapters concerning propaganda, communism, and the 1950s. She has also written for Made By History at the Washington Post, History News Network, Passport, and H-Diplo. She has given numerous interviews and invited talks, including at the Department of Justice, International Spy Museum, and Tamiment Library. She is a member of the OAH and SHAFR, where she is also the Director of Secondary Education. Clune earned her doctorate at University of California at Davis, and her master’s degree from New York University. She is working on a project that explores the American experience during the Korean War.

Guest speaker: Dr. Lori Clune

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