Keywords: Jell-O Box Exhibit Used in the Espionage Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell - NARA - 278774.jpg Scope and content 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 278774 Local identifier Department of Justice Office of the U S Attorney for the Southern Judicial District of New York 1870 - Most Recent <br /> Office of the Attorney General Office of the U S Attorney for the Southern Judicial District of New York 04/09/1814 - 1870 Predecessor NARA-Place Los Alamos National Laboratory New Mexico United States North and Central America nature reserve 3792410 35 833 -106 25 <br /> New York New York state United States North and Central America inhabited place 4191644 40 7 -74 <br /> NARA's Northeast Region New York City NRAAN 201 Varick Street New York NY 10014-4811 1951-03-12 Record group Record Group 118 Records of U S Attorneys 1821 - 1994 Record group ARC 447 Selected Case Files compiled 1847 - 1986 Series ARC 278744 File unit Exhibits from the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Case File 03/13/1951 - 03/27/1951 File unit ARC 278745 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRAN-118-SDUSATTY-114868-7 34 <br /> Other Identifier 05356<br /> This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit <br /> Search Identifier siLearning Center<br /> Search Identifier siNational History Standard Era 9 Other versions <gallery> File Jell-O_Box_Exhibit_Used_in_the_Espionage_Trial_of_Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg_and_Morton_Sobell_-_NARA_-_278774 tif tif File Jell-O_Box_Exhibit_Used_in_the_Espionage_Trial_of_Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg_and_Morton_Sobell_-_NARA_-_278774 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Rosenberg trial Espionage Food packaging Jell-O |