From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Treason???
Article-I.D.: alice.1703
Posted: Tue Mar 22 19:57:59 1983
Received: Wed Mar 23 08:37:11 1983
References: <512@purdue.UUCP>

There have been many more than two convictions of treason
in the U.S.  The ones I recall are:

1) From the Whiskey Rebellion
   - whiskey distillers torched a general's home in
     protest of taxes
2) Aaron Burr
   - led a war to separate the West from the U.S.
3) T. Wilson Dorr
   - armed effort to install a 2nd government
     he was pardoned in 1845
4) Jown Brown
   - armed insurrection to free slaves
     (remember the hanging in ''The Blue and the Grey''?)
5) Many from WW II
   - various convictions of war crimes against the U.S.
     (lending aid and comfort to the enemey IS treason)
6) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
   - violation of the 1917 espionage act (gave military
     secrets to the Russians)