![]() ![]() one of the kindest, sweetest, gentlest human beings I ever met.” The two Rosenberg children, shepherded by a lawyer, are filmed entering the prison. President Eisenhower, in a letter read by a reporter, declares that, “the abominable act of treason committed by these Communist traitors has immeasurably increased the chances of nuclear annihilation.” The Death House matron, briefly interviewed, says, on the other hand, that “Ethel was. Soon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will die in the electric chair. “It’s like New Year’s Eve in Time Square: the countdown to the ball drop.” “Networks have been interrupting the regular programming with news of the execution, which, without a miracle, will happen tonight at Sing Sing,” Simon explains. He and his mother have been watching all day and now his father has joined the vigil. “The only signs of life squawk and jitter inside the massive console TV,” Simon Putnam reports. ![]() On a summer evening in 1953, in a small apartment on Coney Island, the Putnam family sits anxiously in front of a flickering black-and-white screen. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Corbis/Getty Images ![]() Demonstrators preparing for a protest of the death sentence for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1953. ![]()
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