Someone had passed America's atomic bombsecrets to Russia. This was an undisputed factthat...

[dramatic music playing in film] Presenter:
Someone had passed America's atomic bomb
secrets to Russia. This was an undisputed fact
that the whole world knew. The federal government
had laid the crime at the doorstep
of two native New Yorkers, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Their trial had excited
interest all over the world. The two admitted
Communist Party members knew that they faced
possible death sentences in the event
of their conviction, but to the end,
they both protested their innocence of the theft. And we followed the case
with grief and anxiety