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NYC names day after woman who stood for justice. So why did the US execute her? ep 12 update

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Here is a special updated segment from last week's show, which focuses on my interview with Robert Meeropol and the event honoring his mother Ether Rosenberg on what would have been her 100th birthday. Robert he mentioned the proclamation but couldn't divulge all the details, last week. So, here is what happened.

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 12 of the Katie Halper show. We just want to give you a really exciting

0:05.0

heads up that on October 28th we'll be talking to author Tana Hasey Coates, National Correspondent

0:11.0

for The Atlantic, the author of Between the World and Me,

0:14.7

and the Beautiful Struggle, and the writer who Tony Morrison has compared to James Baldwin.

0:20.4

And another guest we're really excited to announce who will be joining us this month is

0:23.8

comedian Judah Freelander. So make sure you check it out.

0:27.0

Coming up at the 6 PM hour will be the Katie Helpers show.

0:33.0

Hello and welcome to the

0:34.0

The Hello and welcome to the Katie helper show here every

0:46.1

Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on W.b.a.I that's W.a.org or 99.5 FM. We are going to bring in our next guest. So excited to speak to him.

0:59.0

Robert Mirapol is the founder and former executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.

1:07.0

He is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who the U.S. government executed

1:10.6

in 1953 for conspiring to steal the secrets of the atomic bomb.

1:14.0

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening to you.

1:16.0

Four times today, Adam Spies Julius Neffel Rosenberg appealed their sentence of death

1:21.0

and four times they were unsuccessful. They will be

1:24.2

executed tonight probably within the next half hour the first husband and wife

1:28.6

to die in the electric chair. Inside the stone walls of Sing Sing prison the Rosenbergs wait all day for word of their faith.

1:36.0

It's now more than two years since they were first sentenced to die for organizing atomic espionage for Russia.

1:42.0

Rabbi Erving Coslow, a prison chaplain, goes in.

1:46.0

He will not leave until after the execution,

1:48.0

which is being held before sundown,

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