The espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg still reverberates across the decades and today, as the National Archives released new documents on the government's prosecution that leans even more toward Mrs. Rosenberg's innocence.
The Rosenbergs were accused of delivering U.S. atom bomb secrets to the Soviets and were executed in 1953. They left two boys to be raised by relatives.
This era of the Communist scare and the McCarthy hearings provided an uncivil backdrop for this case and a most terrifying time for civil liberties in this nation. The Times's story about the archives and the new confession to espionage by a co-conspirator can be read here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12spy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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