344.73096 – National security and the legal process

In the annals of American jurisprudence, few cases have generated the enduring controversy, political intrigue, and constitutional debate as the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Convicted of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, the Rosenbergs became the first—and only—American civilians executed for espionage during peacetime in U.S. history. Decades…