American spy (born 1915)

Ethel Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were Traitors and were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. They were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.

Born

1915

September 28

Died

1953

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1910s

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Ethel, in brief

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were Traitors and were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. They were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.

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