William Reuben papers, ca. 1946-2000.

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William Reuben papers, ca. 1946-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796327

Collection includes: correspondence, research and interview notes, drafts of books and articles, published and unpublished, on the trials of the "Trenton Six," Morton Sobell and Robert Soblen, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Alger Hiss, with much research on Whittaker Chambers. Also included are research notes and drafts of Reuben's writings on Roy Cohn, Philby, Burgess and MacClean Spy Case, Mark Fein Case, Alan Friess, and the Lexington Female High Security Unit (Federal Correctional Institution, Lexington, Ky.). Various personal papers and files are also to be found in the collection.

27.25 linear ft.

University of Michigan

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SNAC Resource ID: 7973750

University of Michigan

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Reuben, William A.

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Investigative reporter, writer. From the description of Papers, ca. 1946-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368760 Investigative reporter and author who wrote, most notably, about the Rosenberg espionage case and the Alger Hiss-Whitaker Chambers libel and perjury trials. From the description of William Reuben papers, ca. 1946-2000. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68796327 William A. Reuben (1916-2004) was bor...

Chambers, Whittaker

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Federal Correctional Institution (Lexington, Ky.).

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Philby, Kim, 1912-1988

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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 ...

Soblen, Robert.

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Cohn, Roy M.

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Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...

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 ...

Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963

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Sobell, Morton, 1917-2018

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Morton Sobell (April 11, 1917 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who is known for having been convicted of spying for the Soviet Union when it was an ally of the United States during late World War II; he was charged as part of a conspiracy said to include Julius Rosenberg and his wife, and others. Sobell worked on military and government contracts with General Electric and Reeves Electronics in the 1940s, including during World War II. Sobell was tried and convicted of espionage in 1...

Maclean, Donald, 1913-1983

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