Julias and Ethel Rosenburg

Throughout the 1950’s there existed a strong resistance to communism, also a deep sense of loss as well as triumph from the end to World War II that still remained in the hearts of the American people. All of this caused the general population to be wearier of foreigners and caused paranoia. One perfect show of these fears was the look out for spies. At this time there had never been an American civilian found guilty of treason, however this would all change when a couple named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg came into the political picture.
The Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950, accused of relaying to the Soviet Union secrets of the atomic bomb. They allegedly recruited Mrs. Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass, who worked at the site of the first atom bomb test in New Mexico. Greenglass became a star witness against the Rosenbergs, testifying that he saw his sister transcribing his spy notes on a typewriter. (Source 2) The judge who passed sentence, Irving Kaufman, told the Rosenbe...