The Rosenbergs (1951) w/ Jamelle Bouie

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It’s March 30th. This day in 1951, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of spying in order to share nuclear secrets with the U.S.S.R. They would be sentenced to death and eventually executed.

Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times to discuss the case, whether the Rosenberg’s were railroaded, and the larger red-scare context of the time.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	This day, March 30, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit espionage.
0:21.0	The event actually took place on March 29th.
0:23.6	We're doing this show.
0:25.0	March 30th, we're talking about this.
0:26.2	But the conviction of the Rosenbergs
0:28.2	was the culmination of a series of confessions,
0:30.8	exposés about Soviet spy networks, related to US nuclear weapons development.
0:38.0	Seven days after they were convicted, Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced the couple to die,
0:42.4	declaring them guilty of a quote crime worse than
0:46.1	murder. On June 19th of 1953, the Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing prison, the only American civilians executed for espionage during the Cold War.
0:57.5	So here to discuss the case of the Rosenbergs, how much nuclear espionage changed the course course the Cold War and lots of
1:04.3	interesting twists and turns in this story are as always Nicole Hemmer of
1:07.4	Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello Nicky hello Kelly
1:10.8	Hello Jody hey there and we have a special guest with us
1:15.8	Jemel Bowie of the New York Times and it is made even more special by the fact that
1:19.8	this is the one year anniversary of this show we started this show on March 31st
1:25.0	2020 I believe and Jamel was our first ever guest on this show so he is back
1:30.0	and Jamel you're now on the hook evermore on our anniversary.
1:34.0	Well I'm glad to be here.
1:38.0	Thank you for having me again.
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