One of the greatest peacetime spy dramas in the nation's history reaches its climax.

As Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobel convicted of revealing atomic secrets to the Russians

enter the federal building in New York to hear their doom.

I'm McCapidice.

I'm Hannah McCarty.

And this is Civics 101.

In June of 2023, Donald Trump was charged with 37 counts of alleged mishandling of

classified documents as well as obstruction of justice.

Of those 37 counts, 31 are alleged violations of the Espionage Act.

Today we're going to talk about that act and we're going to do it through the most famous

so far, Espionage trial in US history.

This is the trial of the first ever US citizens to be executed for espionage during peacetime,

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

And Hannah, this trial has a lot in it.

It's tied to communism.

The communist party of the United States is a fifth column if there ever was one.

McCarty is the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.

So this is an espionage case, right?

Yeah.

It would be best before we get to know who Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were and what

they did to understand what espionage actually is.

After the US entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson signed the 1917 Espionage Act.

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