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Shaun Usher
Apr 05, 2021
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Michael and Robert Rosenberg reading about their parents. New York Daily News Archive/Getty

At New York’s Sing-Sing Prison on the evening of June 19th, 1953, married couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg became the first Americans ever to be executed for espionage, sentenced to death thanks to a testimony from Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, which placed …

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