Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only US civilians to be executed for committing espionage (Ethel Rosenberg). Julius Rosenberg brought many people with him. He also helped many groups who worked as a spy. Many of the people he brought with him were people close to him such as his wife, Ethel Rosenberg, his family and his friends as he was growing up. The groups that helped him during his period of espionage were the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) and the people spying on the Manhattan Project. Shortly after all this happened they were arrested, tried and then executed. This historical moment is very important because it was the historical moment when the first great weapon came out. This impacted history because it impacted many people's lives. Ethel Rosenberg was born on September twenty-eight, 1915 in New York (Ethel Rosenberg). She was born to a Jewish family (US History). After graduating from high school, at just fifteen years old, she went on to work for a New York packing and shipping company (Ethel Rosenberg). Ethel only worked there because she didn't become what she really wanted to be. A singer or an actress. As she continued her work, she joined the workers' union and became a supporter of the Communist Party (History of the United States). Julius Rosenberg was born in May 1918 in New York to a Jewish family (United States History). He attended the same high school as Ethel, Seward Park High School, but graduated at the age of sixteen. When he went to college he joined clubs such as the Steinmetz Club and the Young Communist League. He met his future aides......middle of paper....... Then about fifty years later David Greenglass decided to come out and say he had lied. He lied so he could protect his wife and children from prosecution or even persecution because of mistakes he had made in the past (US History). That said, Julius Rosenberg's plan to try to covertly smuggle information from the United States to the Soviet Union was a failure. Not only did he get in trouble for what he had done, he also brought other people, like his wife, with him. No one ever knew exactly why anything happened to her because there was no evidence. Between the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) and the Manhattan Project you would think that part of his plan would have worked, but it didn't. Instead he, his family and his friends all died. This is the story behind everything that happened to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.