Frontpage Mag Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported on August 11, were among the items the FBI sought in its search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence. That same day came a tweet proclaiming, “Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953.”
That sounds like something from the drunk at the end of the bar, but the tweeter was Michael Beschloss, “the nation’s leading presidential historian,” author of nine books on American presidents, NBC News presidential historian, and a contributor to the PBS news hour. In response to Beschloss, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden tweeted: “Sounds about right.”
Charged with giving American nuclear secrets to Stalin’s USSR, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953. For the American left, it was an article of faith that the Rosenbergs were innocent, and that their execution was part of a “Red Scare.” As the left had it, there was little if any Communist espionage or influence going on in America. Author Ron Radosh set out to prove the Rosenbergs’ innocence but wound up convinced of their guilt, as he explained in The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth, co-authored with Joyce Milton…
