The Rosenberg case a fact sheet.
The National Committee to secure justice in the Rosenberg case, New York, 1952.
6 pp., original wrappers
Only 4 copies on OCLC/Worldcat
The Vatican and the Rosenberg case.
The National Committee to secure justice in the Rosenberg case, New York, (1953).
8 pp., original wrappers.
Only 3 copies on OCLC/Worldcat.
Protest! Eisenhower refusal to commute death sentence against Rosenbergs.
4 pp., original wrappers.
No copy located by OCLC/Worldcat.
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917. Members of the Communist Party, the Rosenbergs had been convicted of passing secret information in 1945 about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Their case remains a cause célèbre, with assertions that their prosecution and conviction reflected Cold War hysteria and did not warrant the death penalty.
Julius Rosenberg was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons. Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage on June 17, 1950, and accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Ethel was arrested two months later. The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a brief trial that began on March 6, 1951, and attracted much media attention, the couple was convicted. On April 5, 1951, a judge sentenced them to death.
During the next two years, the couple became the subject of both national and international debate.
Some people believed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of a surge of hysterical anti-communist feeling in the United States, and protested that the death sentence handed down was cruel and unusual punishment. Many Americans, however, believed that the Rosenbergs had been dealt with justly. They agreed with President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he issued a statement declining to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, "I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done."
A factor was the petition urging President Eisenhower to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. The President turned down a similar plea in February…The Rosenbergs have become the center of world-wide controversy since their conviction and sentencing two years ago… Communists groups throughout the world have taken up the Rosenbergs cause and there have also been many appeals on their behalf from church groups and individuals never accused of Red leanings" (The Victoria advocate, June 18th, 1953).
Very rare and interesting original documents related to The Rosenberg case.
On OCLC/Worldcat : only 4 copies of The Rosenberg case a fact sheet, only 3 copies of The Vatican and the Rosenberg case and no copy of Protest! Eisenhower refusal to commute death sentence against Rosenbergs.