Name of resource. Problem URL. Describe the connection issue. Toggle navigation Back to results. The Sacco-Vanzetti case; transcript of the record of the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the courts of Massachusetts and subsequent proceedings, Imprint New York, H. Physical description 5 v. Online Available online. Full text via HathiTrust Full view. SAL3 off-campus storage. Stacks Request opens in new tab Library has: v.
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Superior Court Plymouth County. Contents I. Two federal agents gave depositions saying that the government had wanted to deport Sacco and Vanzetti and considered murder indictments a convenient excuse.
The state's ballistics expert said he didn't think that Sacco's gun was the murder weapon. Another convicted murderer confessed to having committed the crimes, and Felix Frankfurter, a Harvard law professor and future Supreme Court Justice, wrote a widely read book detailing the weakness in the state's case. With criticism pouring in from around the world, Massachusetts Gov. Alvan T. Fuller appointed a blue-ribbon review committee composed of the presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a local jurist.
When they upheld the conviction, Sacco and Vanzetti's supporters were convinced that Boston's Brahmins were determined to teach their immigrant neighbors their proper place in life, even at the cost of a terrible miscarriage of justice. Heywood Broun, a celebrated newspaper columnist, sarcastically observed, "It's not every prisoner who has a president of Harvard University throw on the switch for them.
In fact, the case continued to be debated long after Sacco and Vanzetti were strapped into an electric chair. In the s, Massachusetts rebuffed the efforts of Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt to erect a statue commemorating Sacco and Vanzetti. In , historian Francis Russell, persuaded authorities to retest Sacco's gun, and concluded that Sacco, at least, was guilty.
Russell's methodology, though, was challenged by subsequent investigators, and in , Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis marked the 50th anniversary of their execution with a proclamation "that any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
But longtime supporters didn't need a governor to tell them who had been right and who had been wrong. Molly West, for one, just drew on her own experience. Born in Poland, she still remembers the sorrow her fellow villagers felt when they learned of the executions. A decade later, having immigrated to America, she found herself at another tragic scene in labor history--the Memorial Day Massacre of , when Chicago police fired into a crowd of striking steel workers. No way. Over the last century, a handful of trials have become public spectacles, fanned by politics, lurid crimes and the frenzied attention of the media.
Eight anarchists convicted of inciting violence at Chicago rally. Jewish officer convicted of treason, launching controversy that rocked France. Attorney Clarence Darrow saves two Chicago teens from death penalty in thrill killing of Bobby Franks. Moore Defense Jeremiah J. McAnarney Defense Frederick G. Katzmann Prosecution. Some of the transcript editing on this page was done by Brad Wilson. Johnson garage owner's wife who thought she saw Sacco and Vanzetti on night of arrest Defense Witnesses Harry Kurlansky one of several witnesses called to attack credibility of prosecution eyewitnesses James E.
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