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'Soviet spy' Ethel Rosenberg may have been innocent
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Arden Dier, Newser staff 9:30 a.m. EDT July 16, 2015
Ethel Rosenberg Innocent? Did She Take Her Brother’s Seat In The Executioner’s Chair?
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple accused of espionage and selling secrets of the atomic bomb to Russia, were executed in 1953 for what was hailed the “crime of the century.” Now, over 60 years… Read More
Testimony casts doubts on Rosenbergs’ accuser: Grand jury record released from ‘50s-era spy case
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By Eric Tucker Associated Press
July 16, 2015
Crucial Testimony Unsealed in Rosenberg Spy Case
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The federal government on Wednesday unsealed decades-old grand jury testimony from the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her husband, Julius, was put to death in 1953 in a sensational Cold… Read More
Unsealed 1950 testimony minimizes Ethel Rosenberg's spying role
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Newly unsealed testimony from Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass, minimizes her role in the spying operations of her husband, Julius Rosenberg, furthering public incredulity about her actual… Read More
Secret Grand Jury Testimony From Ethel Rosenberg’s Brother Is Released
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More than six decades later, the prosecution of Ethel Rosenberg remains one of America’s most controversial criminal cases: Her conviction — and eventual execution — for joining in her husband Julius… Read More
Celebrate the RFC at 25 & Artists as Activists on Oct 17!
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2015 is the RFC’s 25th anniversary year. This extraordinary project—which only exists because of the generosity of tens of thousands of concerned people—has grown from funding summer camp for two… Read More
RFC Sponsors Workers Unite! Film Festival in NYC in May
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[guest post by RFC Communications Director, Amber Black]Some of the Rosenberg Fund for Children’s earliest grantees were children whose parents faced targeting because they were labor organizers.… Read More
Ethel at 100 (part 2): Communists in the Kitchen
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(Part 2 of the The RFC at 25 and Ethel Rosenberg at 100 series)
The first blog in this series explored the public response to the press conference my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, held in her kitchen… Read More
Strange Convergence
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Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed as "atomic spies" in 1953 during the height of the anti-communist witch hunt. Meeropol is founder of the Rosenberg… Read More
RFC makes grants to 10 new families and 4 new TAY in 2014!
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This fall the RFC awarded 64 grants totaling $169,515 for 134 children from 72 families. Seven are new awards, of which two are for Targeted Activist Youth (TAY); and 57 are renewals, including one… Read More
I’m Finishing What I’ve Started
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By Robert Meeropol, Founder
I retired as executive director 18 months ago, but there’s one last encore before my RFC performance is done. I am happy to announce that we have begun a four-year effort… Read More
25 Years!
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2015 is shaping up to be a big year for the Rosenberg Fund for Children. This fall marks both our 25th anniversary and what would have been my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg’s, 100th birthday. We’re… Read More
Family Gathering Builds Community
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View a moving video about the event, featuring interviews with participants, at the bottom of this article.
For four days in August, in western Massachusetts, members of the RFC community… Read More
Finding RFC Beneficiaries On Hurricane Island?
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I’ve always been an avid reader, especially of literary fiction. While I enjoy escaping into a fun novel, most of my favorite books are anything but frivolous reads. Instead, they tend to fall into… Read More
Call to Artists
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When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were fighting for their lives at the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare, many high profile people were among the tens of thousands of concerned individuals worldwide… Read More
Son of Rosenbergs preaches activism at Marshall University
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Posted: Nov 11, 2014 11:48 PM EST Updated: Nov 12, 2014 12:52 AM ESTBy Ben Nandy, Reporter