Rosenberg's Guilty: The Trial Of The Rosenbergs

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The Rosenberg’s were accused of being Soviet spies during the Cold War and the second Red Scare. They were arrested and put on trial. The only witnesses the government had against the Rosenberg’s were the brother, Greenglass, of Ethel Rosenberg. Who accused Ethel’s husband Julius of being a spy and running a soviet spy ring. “At the 1951 trial of the Rosenbergs, the star witnesses were Gold and Greenglass. Gold testified that during the first weekend of June 1945, he traveled to New Mexico, where he met with Greenglass and gave him $500 in exchange for information on the atomic bomb. Greenglass testified that he was following instructions from his brother-in-law.” But later more evidence was gathered from a friend of Julius Rosenberg who did
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