Heir To An Execution

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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  Ivy Meeropol

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  Morton Sobell
  Self
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  Michael Meeropol
  Self
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  Bob Considine
  Self - International News Service
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  Sally Kanter Bruin
  Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
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  Abe Osheroff
  Self - Union Activist
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  J. Edgar Hoover
  Self (archive footage)
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  Richard Nixon
  Self - Vice President (archive footage)
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  David Greenglass
  Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
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  Emanuel Bloch
  Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
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  Greg Meeropol
  Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
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  Robert Meeropol
  Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
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  Miriam Moskowitz
  Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
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  Joseph McCarthy
  Self - Senator
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  Rachel Meeropol
  Self - Robert's daughter
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  Jenny Meeropol
  Self - granddaughter of the Rosenbergs
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  Julius Rosenberg
  Self - archival footages
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  Ethel Rosenberg
  Self - archival footages