In her latest blog, RFC Executive Director Jenn Meeropol shares her enormous appreciation for the many kind messages she and her family received after the disappointing news that President Biden left office without exonerating her grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg.
She highlights many of these messages in her new blog in the hopes that they provide our community the same comfort and sense of community as they did for her. Just a few examples:
As we reflect on a difficult, disappointing week, this lovely message from a member of our community to our Executive Director Jenn Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg's granddaughter, brought us hope, and we share it with the hopes it brings you comfort too:
"Know that during my next season of planting, I will hold an exoneration ceremony reseeding the earth with the spirit of your grandmother."
We are deeply disappointed in President Biden’s failure to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. This is both a personal disappointment to my family and a political one. Despite overwhelming evidence that Ethel was not a spy and the government knew this before convicting and executing her, President Biden did not have the courage to admit our government’s wrongful actions and apologize.
The PBS NewsHour plans to cover the effort to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg this weekend! RFC Founder and younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Robert Meeropol, will discuss the "smoking gun" in his mother's case and what a formal apology from President Biden would mean to him and his family.
In light of powerful new evidence in the Rosenberg Case, we are calling on President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg in these final days before he leaves office on January 20th. To help:
1. Please sign and share the petition: https://www.rfc.org/ethel
2. Send an email to the Office of the Pardons Attorney to urge President Biden to act NOW (instructions & template at https://www.rfc.org/take-action-to-exonerate-ethel).
In case you missed the live interview this morning, the Democracy Now! segment is now available online! Watch Amy Goodman interview Ethel's younger son (& RFC Founder) Robert Meeropol and Congressman McGovern about why Ethel's execution was wrongful, and what President Biden can do about it before he leaves office: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/8/ethel_rosenberg_posthumous_pardon
We are so grateful to Congressman Jim McGovern for joining today and for his ongoing support of the effort
Sharing this excellent article by historian Phillip Deery, via our friends at The Nation Magazine, making the case for why President Biden should Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-ethel-rosenberg-pardon-…
What an incredible and gratifying way to close out 2024! RFC Executive Director Jenn Meeropol alongside her sister and cousins—the four grandchildren of Ethel Rosenberg—published an Op-Ed in Boston Globe Opinion today calling on President Biden to exonerate their grandmother before he leaves office.
Their plea follows the release of a recently declassified "smoking gun" in Ethel's case, a 1950 memo by American codebreaker Meredith Gardner written days after her arrest concluding that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy.
Breaking: Just Security Op-Ed by Rosenberg sons Robert and Michael Meeropol calls on President Biden to set the record straight on their mother, Ethel.
They write, "Nearly 75 years after our mother, Ethel Rosenberg, was arrested for conspiracy to commit espionage and 50 years since we filed our first legal action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to gain access to U.S. government records about our parents’ case, we have found the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle we have been working on for half a century.
We are blown away by this!! Legendary "Succession" and "The Apprentice" actor, Jeremy Strong, on Jimmy Kimmel Live calls Ethel Rosenberg "innocent," and says she "was recently exonerated" -- new evidence declassified this year revealed that Ethel Rosenberg, who was accused of giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets, was not a spy and that the government knew this when she was tried and executed in 1953 at the height of the McCarthy era.