In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother.
Anne Sebba tells Ethel’s story for the first time, a resonant story of what happens when a government, motivated by fear, tramples on the rights of its citizens.
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