Ethel Rosenberg Quotes


Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.


Citations

Rosenberg, Ethel. Testimony. Transcript of Record: Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1951, No. 111, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Petitioners, vs. The United States of America, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952, pp. 1296-1426.

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Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
  • Born: May 12, 1918
  • Died: June 19, 1953
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actress, Singer, Secretary

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass) were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines and valuable nuclear weapon designs (at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons). Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.