I was born in Australia two years after the killing of the Rosenbergs. My parents had been involved in the protests to save them in the lead up to their execution. As a young child, I learned from my mother of the attempts by people across the world to save them. She told of the grief she and my father had felt when the news came through that Julius and Ethel had been killed. Many decades later, I wrote a musical biography of Pete Seeger for theatre, with some emphasis on the hysteria of McCarthyism and the blacklists. In the show I referenced the execution of the Rosenbergs relating their love of the music of The Weavers.