robert meeropol is the younger son of julius and ethel rosenberg.other michael have worked for decades to clear their mother's name. first, can you tell us about this document, what is it and what does it say? mr. meeropol: what is remarkable about this document is first of all who wrote it. that is meredith gardner, who was the chief descriptor can be considered to be the heroic spy catcher who broke the soviet codes and which led to the arrest of certain people. now, what he said in this memo about my mother, she knew about her husband's work, but due to ill health, did not engage in the work itself. and earlier in the memo, he described her husband's work that my father, julius rosenberg, as is fine. so what we have here is a definitive pronouncement by the chief decrypter at the time of my mother's arrest that she was not a spy. and what's remarkable about this document is it dovetails with earlier work that merideth gardner did in decrypting what are called the venona transcriptions of soviet spy cables, in which it was noted that the kgb gave

he is the biological son of julius and ethel rosenberg. death of his parents, he and his brother robert were adopted by abel marable who wrote strange for. he has written about his biological parents and edited that rosenberg letters and his parents present correspondence. he authored, we are your sons. in addition, meeropol has written and lectured extensively about the importance of strange fruit as an anthem of her social reform appeared for example in strange fruit story of a protest song, documentary film by joel katz. to speak about meeropol and the enduring power of strange fruit, please welcome michael marable. [ applause ] . >> first of all, i want to thank harold and paul for including me in this fabulous distinguished panelists it's wonderful to be speaking next to david and an honor to share the stage with professor jefferson. i met my father when i was 10 years old, christmas eve 1953. my brother and i became to live with mom and dad soon after. the next seven years before i went away to college i had the good fortune to live a

he was relatively well known because he had been on the team that prosecuted ethel and julius rosenberg, who were spies, convicted of spying, actually executed. he had a reputation as a very aggressive investigator and prosecutor. it later became clear that he was very unethical, very abrasive and unethical, but he was the kind of person that would really be an attack dog, and the kind of lawyer that mccarthy needed. >> and robert kennedy? >> robert kennedy was also hired to the assistant counsel on permanent subcommittee, about the same time in 1953. of course, he was a fire of the massachusetts kennedy family, the democrats. and he was an artist anti-communist. the kennedys were very ardent anti- communist, and the patriarch of the kennedy family, joseph kennedy, admired senator mccarthy. was not a complete surprise that robert kennedy would join this effort, but he did not last very long. he began having problems with roy cohn . they had very intense conflicts, and ultimately had even a fistfight , after which robert kennedy resigned from committee staff. >> okay, with the mccarthy h