EASTHAMPTON — A nearly yearlong campaign by Robert and Michael Meeropol urging President Barack Obama to exonerate their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, ended with Obama’s presidency Friday.

December 30, 2016

The U.S. government used convicted Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg as a “pawn” in the case against her atomic-secret-stealing husband despite a lack of evidence, a new inquiry into the execution of the… Read More

Heard on Morning Edition | In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on spying convictions. Steve Inskeep talks to Robert and Michael Meeropol, the Rosenberg sons, about their quest to have… Read More

By Brooke Singman, Published December 21, 2016

December 13, 2016, Updated 12/14/2016 9:11 AM Among the last orders of business for outgoing presidents are the presidential pardons, exonerations and sentence commutations.

Rosenberg was executed with her husband in 1953, but mounting evidence indicates she was not a Soviet spy.

Dec 9, 2016 - "We speak this week to Michael Meeropol, whose parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed by the US government in 1953. We talk about his efforts to clear his mother's name and… Read More

December 6, 2016

Michael and Robert Meeropol, the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, visited the White House on Dec 1, 2016, to deliver their petition asking President Obama to exonerate their mother, signed by over… Read More

Last Updated Dec 1, 2016 5:04 PM EST

BY ERIC TUCKER AND JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS December 1, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after… Read More

By Joe Heim December 1 at 5:25 PM 

By Allison Malloy, CNN Updated 4:14 PM ET, Thu December 1, 2016 Washington (CNN)The sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, two convicted communist spies who were sentenced to death during the Cold War… Read More

December 1, 2016 By Karen Brown

By David Millward, Easthampton, Massachusetts  30 NOVEMBER 2016 • 9:58PM The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were sent to the electric chair after being convicted of passing atomic… Read More

By Mary SerrezeNovember 28, 2016 Two men orphaned in a high-profile Cold War espionage case will appear outside the White House on Thursday to deliver a letter and packet of documents to President… Read More

Editorial | Ethel Rosenberg died June 19, 1953, executed by her government for a crime she did not commit. In what became the most notorious spy case of the Cold War, Rosenberg and her husband Julius… Read More