Rosenbergs
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged with the crime of conspiracy
to commit espionage, and tried under the Espionage Act of 1917. The trail
leading up to their arrests was a complex web of espionage, defection,
code-breaking and confession. On July 17, 1950, Julius Rosenberg was arrested,
three weeks later, on August 11, 1950, his wife Ethel Rosenberg. They were
imprisoned in the New York House of Detention. They were found guilty of
conspiracy to commit espionage on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death
on April 5, 1951. They were executed on June 19, 1953.
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