Heir To An Execution
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When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every family member refused to take them in. Documentarian Ivy Meeropol, raised to believe in her grandparents' innocence, begins investigating what actually happened, interviewing family members and friends. With declassified papers indicating Julius was participating in espionage in some capacity, Ivy tries to understand the beliefs that drove the couple.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self - Senator
Bob Considine
Self - International News Service
Michael Meeropol
Self
Abe Osheroff
Self - Union Activist
Miriam Moskowitz
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
Morton Sobell
Self
Sally Kanter Bruin
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
David Greenglass
Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
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