Crisis committee: Rosenberg case

The calendars show 1950’s, the high point of the “Red Scare”—a time when many Americans feared subversion by Communists within the United States who sympathized with the nation’s Cold War rival, the Soviet Union. Events at home led many to believe that Communists were infiltrating the U.S. government and spying on behalf of the Soviets. Including our main characters Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were suspected. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” But in a practical sense they were held accountable for giving the so-called “secret of the atomic bomb” to the USSR.

But… Is that really what happened? Shall we rewrite it?