When the rosenberg case was appealed to the supreme court, the court overturned the rosenbergs’ conviction. upheld the rosenbergs’ conviction. refused to rule on the case. returned the case to a lower court.

The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians (treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union.)