'Atom spy' Ethel Rosenberg's conviction in new doubt after testimony released

'Atom spy' Ethel Rosenberg's conviction in new doubt after testimony released
  • David Greenglass’s 1950 grand jury account does not implicate sister
  • Brother changed story before trial that led to Rosenbergs’ execution

Newly released grand jury testimony could upend the notion that Ethel Rosenberg was guilty of espionage.

Ethel and her husband Julius Rosenberg were convicted in the most sensational atomic spying case of the cold war in 1951. They were convicted for conspiring to steal secrets about the atomic bomb for the Soviet Union, and were executed in 1953 at New York’s Sing Sing prison.

David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg’s brother and a key witness in the case against the Rosenbergs, implicated his sister in the conspiracy just 10 days before the trial. Decades later, Greenglass told reporters that he lied on the stand to protect his wife Ruth. Read the rest at the link above.