Cold War Spy. The trial lasted for nearly one month. Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg(September 28, 1915 ' June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg(May 12, 1918 ' June 19, 1953) were Americancommunistswho were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. Morris Funeral Home on … He approached to ask her why. On June 17th, 1953, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas temporarily stayed the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, originally set for the next day, the couple's 14th wedding anniversary. Julius Rosenberg was born on May 12, 1918, in New York. After a little more than two years on death row in Sing Sing Prison in New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the first American citizens to be put to death for espionage, were buried Sunday. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history. Ethel Rosenberg and husband Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. Convicted and executed with her husband Julius for providing American Atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He also named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as contacts and denied that his wife, Ruth Greenglass, was involved with any espionage activities. He graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in electrical engineering in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Army Signal Corps where he worked on radar equipment. Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass met on New Year's Eve 1935, at a union fund-raising party. On July 17, 1950 the FBI arrested Julius, and one month later Ethel was arrested. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed 55 years ago, on June 19, 1953. (They were put to death June 19.) Ethel looked nervous when Julius first spotted her in a corner of the rented hall. Electrical engineer Julius and his secretary wife Ethel … Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were married June 18, 1939 in New York City and had two sons, Micahel Allen, born March 10, 1943, and Robert Harry, born May 14, 1947. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bombto the Soviet Union. He became a leader in the Young Communist League, where he met Ethel in 1936, before marrying her three years later. Cohn was just 23 when his role as a prosecutor in the Rosenberg trial made him a nationally-known figure. Julius Rosenberg, a look of defiance on his face, his eyes staring straight ahead and displaying no emotion, was the first to die. Outside the I.J. They were both executed by the U.S. government in … On March 6, 1951 their trial began in New York's Southern District federal court. 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