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Morton Sobell: A Plea for Justice

An investigative journalist reports on the case of Morton Sobell, and interviews people who maintain that Sobell was a victim of an unjust trial. In this documentary about Morton Sobell's infamous espionage case, interviewees - including family members, lawyers, Dr Harold C. Urey, Norman Thomas and the Reverend Erwin A. Gaede - discuss the events leading up to his arrest, trial and imprisonment in Alcatraz.

Credits

Cast
Thomas, Norman; Piel, Eleanor Jackson; Love, Stephen S.; Urey, Harold C.; Sharpe, Malcolm P.; Gaede, Erwin A.; Sobell, Helen; Sobell, Mark; Sobell, Rose; Norman Thomas (interviewee); Eleanor Jackson Piel (interviewee); Stephen S Love (interviewee); Harold C Urey (interviewee); Malcolm P Sharpe (interviewee); Erwin A Gaede (interviewee); Helen Sobell (interviewee); Mark Sobell (interviewee); Rose Sobell (interviewee)
Complete catalog record
Original source: Reproduction of: USA, c. 1964. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507340. | Production Company: Veritas.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:29:11) : sound, black and white
Subjects: Spies -- United States -- Biography | Trials (Espionage) -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Trials (Espionage) | Spies | United States | Communism | Espionage | Prisons | Trials | Law and legislation | Newspapers | USA (United States of America) | Sobell, Morton (1917- ) | Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) | Rosenberg, Ethel (1915-1953) | Rosenberg, Julius (1918-1953) | Cohn, Roy (1927-1986) | Documentary | 1946-1953 | 1954-1975 | Sobell, Morton -- Trials, litigation, etc | Sobell, Morton | 1900-1999 | Webcast

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Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record

Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:10