1953 Execution of the Rosenberg couple

65 years ago, on June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists who were sentenced to death in 1951 for atomic espionage in favor of the USSR, were executed in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison in the state of New York. They were accused of "a pre-planned plot with accomplices to give the Soviet Union information and weapons that it could use to destroy us."

The international campaign to mitigate the fate of the convicts, supported by the USSR, ended in vain. Dwight Eisenhower, who became US President in 1953, refused to pardon the Rosenbergs, saying: “The execution of two people is a sad and difficult thing, but even more terrible and sad is the thought of millions of dead, whose death can be directly attributed to what these spies did. I I won't interfere in this matter..."