Robert Meeropol will present “The Rosenberg Case: Still Current in 2022” at the Amos Fortune Forum Friday, July 22, at 8 p.m.in the Meetinghouse in Jaffrey Center.
Meeropol is a retired attorney and the founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. His parents were executed by the United States government on June 19, 1953, when he was 6 years old, for what was called the theft of the secret of the atomic bomb. Meeropol will review his parents’ case and emphasize more-recent developments, including the publication in June 2021 of “Ethel Rosenberg, An American Tragedy” by award-winning British biographer Anne Sebba. Other recent developments led Meeropoland his older brother Michael, working with the fund, to ask former President Barack Obama to exonerate their mother before he left office in 2017. Obama did not respond, but now that Joe Biden is president, they are about to restart that campaign.
Meeropol earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and also graduated from the law school. After leaving private practice, he founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children in 1990 and served as its executive director until he retired from that position when his daughter took over the fund’s leadership in 2013. The RFC is a public foundation that provides for the educational and emotional needs of children whose parents have been harmed or killed in the course of their progressive activities. The fund also supports youth who have been targeted for their own activism. It has awarded almost $6 million in grants to benefit children and youth in this country.
The forum requests that people wear masks while inside for the health of speakers and attendees.