Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass) are convicted on March 29, 1951, of spying and passing secret information about the atomic bomb and other military information to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
The husband and wife were sentenced to death and were executed in 1953 at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York.President Eisenhower had declined to grant executive clemency to the Rosenbergs, stating: "The nature of the crime for which they have been found guilty and sentenced far exceeds that of the taking of the life of another citizen; it involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens…" More
