· Walter and Miriam Schneir’s bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, famously executed in for passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Invitation the Schneirs presented exhaustive and damning evidence that key witnesses in the trial had changed their stories after coaching from Author: Walter Schneir. The result is an entirely new narrative of the Rosenberg case. The reality, Schneir demonstrates, is that Rosenbergs ended up hopelessly trapped: prosecuted for atomic espionage they didn’t commit—but unable to admit earlier espionage activities during World War II/5(44). · Thirty years after the publication of Inquest, Walter Schneir was back on the case after bits and pieces of new evidence started coming to light, much of it connecting Julius Rosenberg to Soviet espionage. Over more than a decade, Schneir continued his search for the truth, meeting with former intelligence officials in Moscow and Prague, and cross checking details recorded in thousands of Cited by: 6.
A Fortnightly Review. Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case. By Walter and Miriam Schneir. $ pp Melville House. By Allen M. Hornblum. AS A COLLEGE STUDENT in the mids, I was assigned an array of books that for the most part were unremarkable and quickly forgotten. Of the few that really captured my interest was. Schneir, a feminist scholar, and her late husband, Walter Schneir, co-authored Invitation to an Inquest, an investigation of the Rosenberg case, which had four editions in the United States (, , , ). In , they summed up their conclusions in Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case (Melville House, ). Final verdict: what really happened in the Rosenberg case by Walter Schneir (Book) 5 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Miriam Schneir is co-author with Walter Schneir of Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case (Melville House, ). She is at work on a history of feminism. The reality, Schneir demonstrates, is that Rosenbergs ended up hopelessly trapped: prosecuted for atomic espionage they didn't commit--but unable to admit earlier espionage activities during World War II. Walter and Miriam Schneir’s bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, famously executed in for passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Invitation the Schneirs presented exhaustive and damning evidence that key witnesses in the trial had changed their stories after coaching from prosecutors, and that the FBI had forged evidence.
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