1950's Government and Politics | 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...