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    Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story 2004 POSTER

    Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story

    2004

    English

    6.9

    1

    Documentary

    Ivy Meeropol Ivy Meeropol Director J. Edgar Hoover J. Edgar Hoover as Self Ethel Rosenberg Ethel Rosenberg as Self Joseph McCarthy Joseph McCarthy as Self - Senator Richard Nixon Richard Nixon as Self - Vice President
    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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