Meeropol grew up with the story of the Rosenbergs, who were tried for espionage in 1951 and executed in 1953 for allegedly passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs’ children, Michael and Robert Meeropol (who took the last name of their adoptive parents), have long held that the Rosenbergs were victims of the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Since the 1970s, the Meeropol brothers have publicly sought an acknowledgment from the US govt to that effect.
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