Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti weren’t famous during most of their lives. They were, respectively, a shoemaker and a fish peddler. Their deaths, however, earned a front-page headline in the New ...

Judging from a new film and two new books, Sacco and Vanzetti remain — 80 years after their controversial execution — the chosen poster boys of those seeking to stigmatize the American justice system.

Their case is almost a century old, but the April 15-17 retrospective co-sponsored by the town and its historical society demonstrated that there continues to be interest in shoemaker Nicola Sacco and ...

It’s been more than 60 years since Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed Yet, when Gov. Michael Dukakis pardoned them in 1977 — with the words, “ any stigma and disgrace should be forever ...

Seventy years ago Saturday, Massachusetts authorities thought they had finally put to rest a troublesome affair labeled by the state’s courts as Docket Nos. 5545 and 5546. Just after midnight on Aug.

Ninety years ago Wednesday, Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston after one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 20th ...

He also worked on 'The Battle of Algiers,' 'The Reckless,' 'Giordano Bruno,' 'And Agnes Chose to Die' and the international miniseries 'Marco Polo.' By Alberto Crespi Giuliano Montaldo, the admired ...

A century ago this week, on the evening of July 14, 1921, a verdict was announced in the murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The complex trial, held at the courthouse in Dedham, Mass ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead! is a satirical retelling of the trial of Nicola ...

THE names of the "good shoe-maker and poor fish-peddler" have ceased to represent merely two Italian workingmen. Throughout the civilised world Sacco and Vanzetti have become a symbol, the shibboleth ...