Introduction

Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) is a 1993-1996 BBC documentary television series and 2011 by Investigation Discovery.

Outline

Julius Rosenberg (12 May 1918 to 19 June 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; 28 September 1915 to 19 June 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.

Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.

Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass (who had made a plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos, was convicted in the United Kingdom.

Great Crimes and Trials Series

You can find a full index and overview of Great Crimes and Trials here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 1994.
• Running time: 30 minutes.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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