One of this event's central figures appears as a ghost in Tony Kushner's Angels in America haunting the shit out of Roy Cohn, and it inspired the aforementioned novel about the fractured Isaacson family, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel.
One fictional character receives a congratulatory sodomizing for organizing this event in Times Square, after an abortive sexual encounter with one of its central participants left that character with the phrase "I AM A SCAMP" written in lipsticks on his buttocks. The titular protagonist finds the senile Selig Mindish at Disneyland after his sister Susan's suicide in a fictionalization of the aftermath of this event, the subject of a Robert (*) Coover novel narrated by Richard Nixon, The Public Burning. One of this event's central figures appears as a ghost in Tony Kushner's Angels in America haunting the shit out of Roy Cohn, and it inspired the aforementioned novel about the fractured Isaacson family, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel. For 10 points, identify this event which took place in a "queer, sultry summer" according to the opening line of The Bell Jar, which saw a Communist couple executed for espionage in 1953.
One fictional character receives a congratulatory sodomizing for organizing this event in Times Square, after an abortive sexual encounter with one of its central participants left that character with the phrase "I AM A SCAMP" written in lipsticks on his buttocks.
The Execution of the Rosenbergs [or the Trial; or any reasonable equivalents mentioning the Rosenbergs; prompt on partial answer; do NOT accept things like "McCarthy witch hunts" or anything general, as the clues are specific] 