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On this day April 05, 1951

Rosenbergs sentenced to death

Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to die, blaming them from the bench for the Korean War itself. Worldwide clemency appeals — from the Pope to Einstein — would fail over the next two years.

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