Rosenberg+Case+-+Feuillet

=Rosenberg Case= ​ [] []
 * Julius Rosenberg was born on May 12, 1918 in New York
 * Ethel Greenglass was born on September 28, 1915
 * Both were members of New York City College's Young Communist Leage, where they met.
 * The two were married in 1939 and had two sons Robert and Michael.
 * As they became less active in New York City College's Communist Leage they were rumord to be committing espionage for the USSR on the US Manhattan Project.
 * On June 17, 1950 Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspision of espionage after Stg. David Greenglass, Ethel's little brother, named Julius when he confessed to espionage.
 * On August 15, 1950 Ethel Rosenberg was arrested also for espionage. David had named her as a "probationer" Typing notes about US nucluear secrets.
 * Espionage or spying involves a individual obtaining information that is cosiderd secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
 * The Rosenbergs were convicted on March 29, 1951 and sentenced to death under Section 2 of the Espionage Act.
 * On June 19, 1953 they were exicuted by use of electricution.
 * The Rosenbergs were the first US citizens to recive the death penalty for espionag during the Cold War