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Jell-O Box Exhibit Used in the Espionage Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell ( Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) Create new Wikidata item based on this file )
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Department of Justice. Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern Judicial District of New York. (1870 - ) (Most Recent)
Office of the Attorney General. Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern Judicial District of New York. (04/09/1814 - 1870) (Predecessor)
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Jell-O Box Exhibit Used in the Espionage Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell
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  • General notes: The trial transcript shows that the prosecution introduced this facsimile Jell-O box to represent the recognition signal supposedly devised by Julius Rosenberg for David and Ruth Greenglass and Harry Gold. According to trial testimony of David and Ruth Greenglass, after dinner at the Rosenbergs' apartment in January 1945, Julius went into the kitchen with Ruth and Ethel, took an empty Jell-O box and cut a side panel into two irregular parts. He gave one piece to Ruth, saying that the person contacting her and David in Albuquerque would identify themselves by presenting the other half. In cross- examining David Greenglass, defense attorney Bloch challenged his story by asking the flavor of the real Jell-O box. David did not remember. Roy Cohn is credited with selecting raspberry for the facsimile.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico, United States, North and Central America) nature reserve ( 35°49′59″N 106°15′00″W  /  35.833°N 106.25°W  / 35.833; -106.25 ; NARA geographical record )

New York (New York state, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place ( 40°42′N 74°00′W  /  40.7°N 74°W  / 40.7; -74 ; NARA geographical record )
Date 12 March 1951
date QS:P571,+1951-03-12T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q518155
NARA's Northeast Region (New York City) (NRAAN), 201 Varick Street, New York, NY, 10014-4811
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration , cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 278774 .

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  • Record group: Record Group 118: Records of U.S. Attorneys, 1821 - 1994 ( National Archives Identifier : 447 )
  • Series: Selected Case Files, compiled 1847 - 1986 (National Archives Identifier: 278744 )
  • File unit: Exhibits from the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Case File, 03/13/1951 - 03/27/1951 (National Archives Identifier: 278745 )
  • NAIL Control Number: NRAN-118-SDUSATTY-114868-7(34)

Other Identifier: 05356
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