Robert Meeropol on Trump Mentor Roy Cohn's Role in Prosecution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
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- democracynow.org - Watch Part 2 of our interview with Robert Meeropol, who is calling on President Obama to posthumously exonerate his mother, Ethel Rosenberg. Supporters say there’s no evidence that Ethel Rosenberg took part in espionage that led to her execution.
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Cohn started all that mess,he turned out to be the actual wolf in sheep clothes 💯✌🏾
Isn't it sad that Julius would put his wife and children at risk for Stalin.
Isn't it sad that there are people who put their wealth and freedom at risk for Trump?
@dangelo1369 Stalin Created Gulag and launched the great purge, Trump didn't
"I'd flip the switch myself!"
Roy Cohn.
Always a wonderful show. Im grateful both sons turned out so well. The fight for truth continues. PS. Thank your dad for Strange Fruit. and W.E.B. DuBois for the introduction.
Cohn-McCarthy relationship I never understood how they got together!
Hometown Traitors: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Spies on the Lower East Side
One of the last remaining players in the most notorious spy cases in United States history died in July, but the news was only announced this week as the deceased was living under an assumed name. On Tuesday, the New York Times discovered that David Greenglass had died in a nursing home. He was 92.
Greenglass became infamous in the 1950’s after he provided testimony that sentenced his sister, Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg, and her husband, Julius, to death on charges of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after being found guilty by the jury in 1951. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The story of the Rosenberg’s trial is extremely complicated and is a miasmic portrait of family betrayals and loyalties as well as national and political ones; and it all began on the Lower East Side…
It was not uncommon for some of the Eastern European immigrants on the Lower East Side or their children to be Communists in the early days of Communism and the birth of the Soviet Union. Though many Lower East Siders later became critical of the realities of Communism, at first the political tenets seemed like the equality for which these exiles had been hoping. The Greenglasses and the Rosenbergs were extreme examples of this idealism.
Shots of a Communist demonstration in 1937 from the photo archives of the New York Public Library.
Ethel Greenglass and her brother David were the children of Eastern European immigrants; their mother was from Austria and their father was from Russia. They grew up on the Lower East Side - Ethel met Julius Rosenberg, the child of Russian immigrants, in high school. Initially Ethel’s parents did not approve of Julius, and the young couple met in secret in the rooms of Ethel’s brother Bernard, where there was much discussion of the Communist party.
David also met his wife, Ruth Leah Printz around their Lower East Side neighborhood. They were neighbors and allegedly childhood sweethearts, who also shared a love of the Communist party (it’s hard to imagine now, but for some, Marxist revolution was quite romantic).
David attended Haaran High School and later Brooklyn Polytechnic but he flunked out. He was not seen as an especially bright engineer but he was somehow assigned to work with the top secret Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. There he was able to successfully gather information on the atomic bomb, which he eventually brought back to his sister’s apartment in Knickerbocker Village, a housing complex on the Lower East Side. Either Ethel or David’s wife, Ruth, transcribed the documents, but this matter remains up for debate.
A early photo of Knickerbocker Village, a housing development on the Lower East Side, home at one point to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Ruth alleged that it was Ethel who had typed the notes, and David defended this position on the witness stand. It is seen as one of the most damning pieces of testimony in the case in which Ethel and Julius were sentenced to death via electric chair. Speculation today entertains the possibility that David exaggerated the roles of his sister and brother-in-law to draw attention away from his own deeds.
David received 15 years in prison for his role in the spying, and was released after 9 ½ years. Ruth faced no prosecution due to the Greenglass’ cooperation with authorities. While evidence today suggests that Julius was guilty of treason, New York Times reporter and Tenement Talk alumnus Sam Roberts prompted an admission from David that he lied on the stand. Though he claimed it was his sister who typed the fateful notes, he had no real memory of this being the case. Roberts received the answer, “’I don’t remember that at all,’ Mr. Greenglass said. ‘I frankly think my wife did the typing, but I don’t remember.’”
[Even after all the years of reflection, David said he had no regrets] “‘My wife is more important to me than my sister. Or my mother or my father, O.K.? And she was the mother of my children.’”
That’s as dramatic a tale as any of love and betrayal on the Lower East Side.
tenement.org/blog/hometown-traitors-a-tale-of-love-betrayal-and-spies-on-the-lower-east-side/
If anyone watching video is not deeply moved by the circumstances of the death of Ethel Rosenberg that person has no humanity.
Donald trump has done more to merit his involvement
This man voice is clear and beautiful. You can tell that his parents were smart.
Angels in America was a brilliant movie.
Grandma Adelaide Pacino and Streep brought me here :-)
Fiction pure fiction. I have no idea about Roy Cohn's personal life. But he was a patriot and he knew there were Communists in Hollywood. As the passing of time is proving. And he helped rid the world of pigs like the rosenbergs who caused the death of thousands, just like all spies and traitors do.
Does anyone have a link to the first part of this interview?
A wonderful piece. I wish you had continued the scene from 'Angels in America' to show Ethel's 'melting', singing a lullaby to Cohn.
Wasn't Cohn a chum of Trump?
Basically his father.
There is so much history intertwined in this brief 30 min. video -- from references to Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit," a song written by Abel Meeropol under his pseudonym, Lewis Allen, to mention in clips of Roy Cohen, Joseph McCarthy, Donald Trump, etc., as well as graphic discussions (for the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) of their convictions and later, deaths. It is a lasting tribute to the Rosenbergs that their sons turned out all right. Sorry to hear that Pres. Obama did not get to the pardon of Ethel Rosenberg, although perhaps he had his reasons.
Yes, lots of emotional manipulation
thanks for sharing truth
It would be so nice if Ms. Ferguson gets to sing Robert Meeropol's adoptive father's most important song at the inauguration . . . . . . . .
It’s funny spy’s going to a jail called sing sing 😂😂
A sad story. Maybe his parents should have thought of the consequences of their actions?
did you not watch the video or know anything about history? McCarthyism was a poison
@@VeggieRice their mother loved communism more than them
@@VeggieRiceThat doesn’t change the fact that Julius committed espionage and treason, and Ethel was both cognizant of and in agreement with his actions, whether or not she actually participated. McCarthy’s excesses don’t make this less true.
I like constitutional republic now. It's 1,000 times more honest and much better.
ANDTHIS NEWS story and interview was just about 29:57 minutes HISTORICAL FACT AND THIS IS A VERY GOOD BROADCAST/INTERVIEW IN MY OPINION AND THIS WAS UPLOADED ON JANUARY 5,2017.
gosh... what a life...
is this real?
My comments have been erased?
Stunned!
We need to develop a case against Ethel Rosenberg...hmmm.The typed letter...what did it say? Guess Ill have to read the book. I can probably borrow the ebook from my local library
Is pollard any different?
I'd have changed my name back to Rosenberg.
Whatever is easier!
That lady & her husband should be given Nobel Peace Prize for bringing Balance of Power in the World .If Only US had Nuke then God save us All
Reminds me of the Mata Hari.
Oh, yeah? In what way? They were all murdered? WTF?
at about 14:08 when the newscaster in 1953 talks about Ethel surviving the chair at first, that broke me
ugh so barbaric, just 4 years before i was born
@@kathythomas6600 Barbaric is right, Kathy.
I wasn't born until 1958, but I know this always bothered my mother. I learned about from her first.
The executioner goofed big time. According to his notes, he turned down the amperage from 8amps to 6 amps which resulted in a lowered first contact (as they would say). And would subsequently take longer to kill her. Thus an act of mercy actually turned out to be more tortuous than intended. He should have stayed with the original protocol (2000v @ 8amp for the first 3 seconds; then lowered to 500v for the remaining 54 seconds and then back to 2000v for the last 3 seconds for the first and hopefully only contact.)
@@dangelo1369 its still barbaric and should be abolished, all forms of CP
You kinda left out that Greenglass implicated Ethel his sister and cared less about it. He blamed her and never had a bad feeling about it! Also she never professed her innocence because she was such a hard core Communist sympathizer, she wouldn't of requested to be exonerated!
I clearly think that they were innocent and death imprisonment is a question mark over USA system of justice, MacArthur ism theory was rubbish and spoil and I condemn harshly to that theory ,,
So, did Obama do that?
He was busy writing cheques for the criminals that orchestrated the GFC
No, he did not exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. His decision was announced in January 2017, shortly before he left office.
Writing checks to keep the US and world economy that the Bush/Cheney gang caused by starting 2 UNFUNDED WARS. By giving huge UNFUDED TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH/CORPORATIONS and passing an UNFUNDED MEDICARE DRUG PLAN that had no limits on price for BIG PHARMA. And of course, the shenanigansf the Big Banks. Obama/ Biden cleaned up the GOP'S mess.
The Democrats have lost more than 1,000 elected positions in the last 10 years. It holds the fewest seats since 1928. I credit this self-congratulatory program for much of that.
Sad thing is democrips won the popular vote every time.
Funny thing was how hard Trumpers cried when they lost the election
@@jasonm1288 I doubt the cheating, but Dems need to pay attention to the fact Trump won 12 million more votes in 2020 and gained ground with Hispanics and blacks. You think the 12 percent who came out to vote against Trump will be there every election? I doubt it.
@@HC-cb4yp By the same token, the Democrats gained more votes and still won by a bigger margin than they did with Hillary Clinton. As a matter of fact, the Democrats have won the popular vote in every election since Bill Clinton. That says a lot H.C.
@@dangelo1369 Maybe that's why they've embraced fascism and one-party rule. Stick around for November 2022. We'll see if they lose power for 14 years like they lost it for 12 after Carter, who was a much better president than Biden.
Ethel Rosenberg was innocent!
You communist HAG!👹