American Decades
Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
Statement
By: Irving Kaufman
Date: April 5, 1951
Source: Kaufman, Irving. Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs. April 5, 1951. Available online at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS... ; website home page: http://www.law.umkc.edu (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: Irving Kaufman's (1910–1992) judicial career spanned five decades. By the age of twenty, he graduated from Fordham College and Fordham Law School. In 1947, Kaufman had attained a position as a U.S. District Court judge in New York City. In 1951, he presided over his most important and controversial case: United States v. Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, and Morton Sobell. In 1961, Kaufman received an appointment to the Second Circuit Court of...
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
