The founder of the internet archives, Brewster Kahle. The archive Just Announced plans to near its site in canada to protect itself from the new administration. Then to donald trump and the bomb. Will the president elect start a new Nuclear Arms Race . We will speak with arms control expert joe cirincione, author of Nuclear Nightmares. Plus, we look at what was once called the crime of the century. Someone had passed americas atomic bomb secrets. The federal government had laid the crime at the doorstep of two new yorkers. Amy more than 60 yearafafter the e ecution, the rosenberg casese i still stirring ntrorovey and d bate. Thelels sons are asng presint o oba to exerate thr mother as a new rerepo shows ethel was execudd becausshe refud to coorate wi theovernme doubt nvict her husband. To help convict her husband. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In breaking news, russian president Vladimir Putin sa
The founder of the internet archives, Brewster Kahle. The archive Just Announced plans to near its site in canada to protect itself from the new administration. Then to donald trump and the bomb. Will the president elect start a new Nuclear Arms Race . We will speak with arms control expert joe cirincione, author of Nuclear Nightmares. Plus, we look at what was once called the crime of the century. Someone had passed americas atomic bomb secrets. The federal government had laid the crime at the doorstep of two new yorkers. Amy more than 60 yearafafter the e ecution, the rosenberg casese i still stirring ntrorovey and d bate. Thelels sons are asng presint o oba to exerate thr mother as a new rerepo shows ethel was execudd becausshe refud to coorate wi theovernme doubt nvict her husband. To help convict her husband. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In breaking news, russian president Vladimir Putin sa
Rawhide is ok. Next on American History tv a panel of espionage historians talk about julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the spy couple who leaked secrets about the atom bomb to the russians. They discuss the role of antisemitism in their prosecution, and the eventual execution of the treasonous couple that sparked National Debate in the u. S. This 90 minute event to place in the National Archives in washington d. C. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I will get us going. I am the Senior Adviser of the pulitzer center. A harvard Professor Emeritus im happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. Our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the United States during the cold war. It is a heck of a story. To start with. Im sure you are all here because you are involved in it emotionally or intellectually. It is a story that goes back to the 1930s when young people joined the communist party in the United States, and world war ii came along, and t
They formed that bond with him and i think that carried him through. It kept him from getting a lot more trouble in places where other president s would have faced a lot rougher time. Rawhide is ok. Up next, a panel of espionage historians talk about julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A spy couple who leaked secrets of the atom bomb. The role of antisemitism in their prosecution, and the eventual execution of the treasonous couple that sparked National Debate in the u. S. This 90 minute event to place in the National Archives in washington dc. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I will get us going. I am the Senior Adviser of the pulitzer center. A harvard professor emeritus, im happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. Our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the United States during the cold war. It is a heck of a story. To start with. Im sure you are all here because you are involved in it, emotionally or intellectually. It is a stor
Talking about both people accused on the base of solid evidence of providing information in the making of atomic weapons from the United States to the soviet union. They were americans who are doing what they thought was right. It started in early 1950, when one of the most important soviet spies, a physicist, was arrested and fbi officials learned that he had passed information to moscow by courier, a courier named harry gold. Under interrogation gold identified David Greenglass as his contact. Greenglass identified Julius Rosenberg as the leader of a key spy ring. In june of 1950, julius and his wife ethel were arrested. Both of them charged with conspiracy to commit espionage under the espionage act of 1917. In march of 1951 they were convicted. In june of 1953 they were executed. Since that time, there has been new information produced, and we will talk about some of the new information this evening. What i would like to do now is quickly get into the introduction of the people who