Demonstrators at Penn Station protesting Rosenberg Sentence

18 Jun 1953 — Original caption: 6/18/1953-New York, NY- Demonstrators gather at Pennsylvania Station in New York, June 18, to prepare for a trip to Washington, where they will parade with placards in a protest against the death sentence for convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The day before, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas granted a stay of execution for the couple doomed to die in the electric chair on June 18. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS