sentences:  Kinoy was attorney for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), classified in the 1950s as a Communist-controlled union by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), headed by conservative Democratic Sen. James O. Eastland from Mississippi.Kinoy took an active part in the defense of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg from 1951.They were convicted of atomic espionage and executed on June 19, 1953.