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Even in the face of death, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg refused to confess. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Chapters: 0:00 The Atomic Shock 0:13 Klaus Fuchs Confesses 0:29 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg 1:14 The Manhattan Project Leak 1:43 Greenglass Agrees to Spy 2:31 Espionage 3:31 The Jell-O Box 4:28 The Arrests Begin 5:15 A Family Turns on Itself 5:53 The Spy Ring Unravels 6:30 The Rosenbergs’ Trial 7:49 The Sentencing 8:55 Appeals and Defiance 10:39 The Executions 11:59 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Battle Hymn of the Republic performed by West Point Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAqNe-m0a8s Knickerbocker village apartment where the Rosenbergs resided: jqpubliq (original)Vzeebjtf (cropped and lighting-altered), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons