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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…

DirectorIvy Meeropol
ProducerMarc Levin

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Cast · Directed by Ivy Meeropol

MS
Morton Sobell
Self
MM
Michael Meeropol
Self
BC
Bob Considine
Self - International News Service
SB
Sally Kanter Bruin
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
AO
Abe Osheroff
Self - Union Activist
JHJ. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
RNRichard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
DG
David Greenglass
Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
EB
Emanuel Bloch
Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
GM
Greg Meeropol
Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
RM
Robert Meeropol
Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
MM
Miriam Moskowitz
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg

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