Historical Impact
- On Mother's Day, May 10, 1953 pamphlets were handed out on New York City streetcorners in protest of the approaching execution of the Rosenbergs. Lee Harvey Oswald, at that time a 14-year old boy living in the Bronx, received one of these pamphlets, and six years later would tell a reporter in Moscow (after he had defected to the USSR) that this marked the beginning of his interest in "socialist literature," which he then proceeded to seek out and read, soon becoming a self-described lifelong "Marxist."
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