i am amazed with the number of people who seem unaware of the fact that the rosenbergs actually were executed. i am likely gothy-morbid, but i’ve always been fascinated with them and their doomed reality of living through that late 1940s-50s hysteria. julius i’ve never had sympathy for but ethel has my heart. she stayed true through it all and it was her brother who judas-ed her. they gave him an assumed name after the trial and execution - that’s how hated he was. and i know it’s morbid, but i’ve always found it fascinating that it took a lot more on the electric chair to end ethel. even though she was smaller than julius. that’s always struck me. i don’t know. her sons are totally adult hippies, now. i’m not sure if her brother is still alive or not.
2 years ago