Sally Stockhold

Ethel Rosenberg Executed

From “myselfportraits, ode to icons” Series
Hand-colored archival pigment print
Edition of 6 + 2 APs
Sally Stockhold © 2008

Ethel Rosenberg (1915–1953) Rosenberg was a victim of cold-blooded murder by the United States Government, provoked by the hysterics during the McCarthy communist witch-hunting years in the early 1950s. Convicted of treason for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets, history has since proven that whatever atomic bomb information her husband Julius Rosenberg had was, at best, superfluous; the case was riddled with prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. Ethel was convicted on flimsy evidence to place leverage on her husband to gain his confession. Neither confessed to wrong doing nor deserved the death penalty. Jean-Paul Sartre called the trial “...a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation.

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