Radosh/Rosenberg File

[Brad DeLong]

>All right, someone correct me if I'm wrong:
>
>The upshot of "The Rosenberg Files" is that:
>
>1) Based on the voluminous documentation presented in the book, 
>Ethel Rosenberg in all likelihood did not commit the crime for which 
>she was executed, and may not have even consciously spied for the 
>USSR;
>
>2) Based on the voluminous documentation presented in the book, 
>Julius Rosenberg in all likelihood did not commit a capital crime, 
>but he was a spy for the USSR;
>
>3) The arrest, trial, and execution of the Rosenbergs was justified 
>and was in fact a triumph of American justice, and people on the 
>Left who still criticize it are simply refusing to face reality, and 
>are hopeless dupes at best, if not outright apologists for treason.

I think that Milton and Radosh's position was that given the hysteria 
of the moment, the fact that the American justice system only bent as 
far as it did is a sign of the strength of American institutions.

Nevertheless, when I read _The Rosenberg File_ I remember thinking 
that Ethel Rosenberg would not agree. And that _The Rosenberg File_ 
demonstrated convincingly that the trial was a gross miscarriage of 
justice.

Brad DeLong