Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story: An America Undercover Special

When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died, nobody wanted their bodies. In fact, the people who bought their plot lied about whom it was for. So begins Ivy Meeropol’s personal investigation of her grandparents, the infamous Jewish couple executed as Atom Bomb spies in 1953. As Ivy explains, “I grew up with the story of my grandparents, but that didn’t mean I understood what happened.” Michael and Robert have devoted much of their lives to clearing the Rosenberg name. Taking up this mantle, Ivy decides to track down as many survivors of the scandal as possible, first visiting Morty Sobell, a co-defendant jailed for 19 years after refusing to implicate the Rosenbergs. Sobell remembers Julius and Ethel as “ordinary though political,” and very much in love. “I have no private knowledge” that Julius was a spy, he adds.Show more