Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for a crime that they almost certainly did not commit, put to death by the state of ...

An object we call The Vanzetti Knife has been in my family for more than 100 years. It belonged to Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler in Plymouth, Mass., in the 1910s. He was arrested along with ...

To the State House in Boston last week came a six-year-old child, Inez Sacco, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Nicola Sacco. While Mrs. Sacco talked to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts and ...

[THE following document, which is not printed to prolong an argument, has no bearing upon the official record of the tragic case to which it forms the natural epilogue. But in human records its ...

Comment on the repercussions of the Sacco Vanzetti case in America and abroad are numerous in the editorial columns of the Yiddish press. The “Jewish Morning Journal,” conservative paper, commenting ...

The “good shoemaker” and the “poor fish peddler” who were executed in 1927 after a bitter, seven-year battle in court, in the press and in many minds, keep agitating American imaginations. Composer ...

On this day in 1927 80 years ago, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants for the murder of two payroll clerks that the men insisted they didn't commit. The executions of Nicola ...

The world-wide concern over the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti has stirred renewed interest in what has been termed “Britain’s own Sacco-Vanzetti ease.” an Associated Press despatch from London states.

“Sacco and Vanzetti,” like Michael Winterbottom‘s wretched “Road to Guantanamo,” sets out to condemn an atmosphere of hysterical, flimsily supported accusation, but finally can’t resist firmly ...

New York: The Viking Press. 1928. 8vo. xi+ 414 pp. .$3.00. WILL not some publisher sponsor a library of prison literature? It could begin with the Phado, and include works from many climes and times.