Over 60 years late, New York City officials and her surviving family gathered to "begin to right the wrong of what happened to Ethel Rosenberg,” declaring her "an innocent woman (who) was unjustly executed" in the most shameful political show trial of the cold war. In her last letter to her sons, who have long fought to clear her name, she wrote, "Your lives must teach you, too, that good cannot flourish in the midst of evil."