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From the U.S. National Archives’ exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?”:

J-E-L-L—O! 
You might think that this is just an ordinary Jell-O box, but there is more to it than meets the eye. This particular box of raspberry Jell-O was used as evidence in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell in 1951.
You can read more about the Rosenberg case and the tell-tale Jell-O box in Prologue: Pieces of History.

From the U.S. National Archives’ exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?”:

J-E-L-L—O!

You might think that this is just an ordinary Jell-O box, but there is more to it than meets the eye. This particular box of raspberry Jell-O was used as evidence in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell in 1951.

You can read more about the Rosenberg case and the tell-tale Jell-O box in Prologue: Pieces of History.

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