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Records, 1950-1986.

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Records of the Madison (Wis.) chapter of an organization advocating reopening the espionage case against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953; and the correspondence, writings, and articles of Irwin Edelman regarding the Rosenberg case. The committee records consist of correspondence of co-chair Robert Kimbrough, minutes, correspondence with local and national chapters, clippings, ephemera, and sound recordings by the Rosenberg's son Michael Meeropol and their attorney Marshall Perlin.

0.6 c.f. and2 tape recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6923400

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Edelman, Irwin

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Perlin, Marshall, 1920-1998

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Perlin, Marshall, 1920-1998, born in New York, completed Columbia Law School in 1942. He was the trial lawyer of Morton Sobell, the Rosenbergs' co-defendant, then represented Michael and Robert Meeropol, the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were sentenced. From the description of Perlin Papers, (1932-1953). (Columbia University Law School, Diamond Law Library). WorldCat record id: 698742344 ...

Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New ...

Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New ...

Kimbrough, Robert.

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Kimbrough (b.1929) served in the Korean War as platoon leader of 2nd Rifle Platoon, C Company, 1st Marine Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He joined the Marine Reserve during his second year of college at Williams College (Massachusetts). On active duty from 1950-1953, he also served from 1948-1976 in the Marine Corps Reserve and retired as a Colonel. He received a Master's degree from Stanford and a Ph. D. from Harvard in English literature. He came to Wisconsin in 1959 to t...

Meeropol, Michael

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National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case

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Madison Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case.

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