Marshall Perlin

Marshall Perlin
Born	October 23, 1920(1920-10-23) Manhattan
Died	December 31, 1998(1998-12-31) (aged 78) New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Manhattan
Education	Rutgers University Columbia Law School (1942)
Spouse	Loretta Rowe
Children	Hank Perlin Jan Perlin

Marshall Perlin (August 23, 1920 – December 31, 1998) was a civil-liberties lawyer, who along with Emanuel Hirsch Bloch,‎ defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg‎. He came to the trial after the sentencing, during the appeal process.^[1]

Biography

He was born on August 23, 1920 in Manhattan and later graduated from Rutgers University. He completed Columbia Law School in 1942, but his degree was not conferred until 1947 while he served in World War II. He represented Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol, the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg‎ after the Rosenberg's were sentenced. He was the trial lawyer for Morton Sobell, the Rosenbergs' co-defendant. He died on December 31, 1998.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Saxon, Wolfgang (January 4, 1999). "Marshall Perlin, Lawyer in Rosenberg Spy Case, Dies at 79 [sic"]. New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E4D8163EF937A35752C0A96F958260. Retrieved 2008-07-09. "Marshall Perlin, a civil-liberties lawyer who was engaged on a decades-long quest to keep the Rosenberg spy case in the national consciousness, died last Thursday at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was 79 [sic] and lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan." 

External links

• An Interactive Rosenberg Espionage Ring Timeline and Archive

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Name	Perlin, Marshall
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Date of birth	October 23, 1920
Place of birth	Manhattan
Date of death	December 31, 1998
Place of death	New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Manhattan