One of the greatestpeacetime spy dramas in the nation's historyreaches its climax as...

[soft music concludes] [dramatic music playing] Presenter: One of the greatest
peacetime spy dramas in the nation's history
reaches its climax as Julius Rosenberg
and Mrs. Ethel Rosenberg, who, with her husband,
was convicted of actually transmitting
the secrets to Russia through Soviet diplomatic channels, enter the Federal Building
in New York to hear their doom. It is a stern jurist they face
in Judge Irving Kaufman. He sentenced both Rosenbergs
to death in the electric chair. It is the first time
in peacetime that such a death penalty
has been handed down, and while appeals to the
highest courts are planned, it certainly appears
that the spies are headed along
a one-way street. When the verdict came down,
and they were sentenced to be executed