PETITION: (Ethel Rosenberg's sons: "The Rosenberg Fund For Children joins Rosenberg sons Michael and Robert Meeropol in calling on President Biden to exonerate their mother Ethel Rosenberg following the release of formerly classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents that prove the U.S, Government withheld information that confirmed Ethel was not a spy, President Biden has the power to right this historic injustice, redress the harm done to the Meeropol family, and bring peace to both of Ethel's sons in their their lifetimes. Please join us by signing the petition below.:
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PASSAGE ONE OF THE DAY: (Ethel Rosenbergs grandchildren): "When Biden pardoned his son, he said, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.” We understand better than most. Biden’s political enemies sought to use his son to attack him and his family. The same thing happened to our family: Prosecutors arrested and charged our grandmother to, in their words, “use her as a lever” against her husband. She refused to cooperate and was ultimately executed. As then-deputy attorney general William P. Rogers admitted, “she called our bluff.”"
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- COMMENTARY: "Ethel Rosenberg grandchildren urge Biden: Exonerate our grandmother," by Jennifer, Ivy, Greg and Rachel Meeropol, the grandchildren of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, published by The Boston Globe, on December 31, 2024.
- SUB—HEADING: "Our lives have been shaped by our grandparents’ trial and execution and by our fathers’ search for the full story behind it. Now new evidence clears Ethel Rosenberg."
- PHOTO CAPTION: Ethel Rosenberg sits in a car as she starts her trip to Sing Sing prison, April 11, 1951. U.S. Deputy Marshal Sarah Goldstein is with her.We are the four grandchildren of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg..
GIST: "When our fathers, Michael and Robert, were 10 and 6, their parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the US government after being found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union. Our dads have spent the past 50 years seeking to learn the truth about our grandparents.
In September, their Freedom of Information Act request to the National Security Agency resulted in the release of the “smoking gun” in our grandmother’s case: a memo by American codebreaker Meredith Gardner. In that memo, written shortly after Ethel’s arrest in 1950, Gardner concluded after reviewing Soviet Intelligence that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy, writing that Ethel “knew about her husband’s work, but that due to ill health she did not engage in the work herself.”
This memo is the capstone to a series of documents released over the past few decades that completely undermine the case against Ethel. After the grand jury testimony of the chief prosecution witness, Ethel’s brother David Greenglass, was released in 2015 and revealed his perjury about Ethel, our fathers called on President Obama to exonerate our grandmother. They laid out in great detail how the justice system failed our grandmother at every step. But Obama did not act on the request. President Biden has the chance to do so now.
When Biden pardoned his son, he said, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.” We understand better than most. Biden’s political enemies sought to use his son to attack him and his family. The same thing happened to our family: Prosecutors arrested and charged our grandmother to, in their words, “use her as a lever” against her husband. She refused to cooperate and was ultimately executed. As then-deputy attorney general William P. Rogers admitted, “she called our bluff.”
We grew up living with this painful and unique family history. Our lives have been shaped by our grandparents’ trial and execution and by our fathers’ search for the full story behind the destruction visited on their family.
By all accounts our grandmother was a loving person, a committed union activist, and a gifted singer. But we never heard her voice or learned from her example. There are no family photos of us together or treasured memories of holidays and vacations. Instead, we learned about our grandparents’ case as children, studied it in school, and wrestled with our feelings about it as young adults. We had nightmares about the electric chair, wondered how our dads survived losing their parents, and struggled with what we could do to provide comfort to them every year on the anniversary of their parents’ death.
Our fathers are now 81 and 77, and despite the traumatic experiences of their childhood, they are good, productive men, loving and beloved dads and grandfathers.
We are asking Biden to once again let his conscience guide him as he did when he commuted 37 federal death row sentences. It is too late to save our grandmother but he has the ability to correct this historical wrong. Ethel’s final plea for clemency to President Eisenhower was ignored, but Biden, having all of the facts, can listen to ours."
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The entire commentary can be read at:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/31/opinion/ethel-rosenberg-soviet-spy-exoneration/
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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