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., had lasted seven weeks and involved 167 witnesses, with confusing ballistics reports and testimony in Spanish and Italian. Deliberations were expected to drag on for a day or more, but just hours after closing arguments the jury pronounced the men guilty, and they were sentenced to death.
The saga that ended in the electric chair began on April 15, 1920, when two guards were gunned down outside the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Mass. Two gunmen escaped with the steel boxes containing the factory’s payroll, some $15,000. Under intense pressure to solve the shocking crime, the police staked out a mechanic’s shop where they believed a car connected to the robbery was being repaired, and a few weeks later Sacco and Vanzetti showed up to retrieve it, falling into the trap.
Questioning revealed that both men were anarchists—supporters of a radical political movement that called for the destruction of all government and used assassination as a propaganda tool. Since 1900, anarchists had killed several world leaders, including President William McKinley. In 1919, a terrorist group calling itself “The Anarchist Fighters” coordinated midnight bombings in eight Eastern cities. On Sept.
Supporters of Sacco and Vanzetti have long claimed they were political prisoners, convicted for their anarchist views. But members of the jury maintained that they never discussed anarchism during deliberations. Perhaps they did not need to. To the all-Anglo jury, it may have been too easy to see the Italian prisoners seated in an iron cage as guilty, even though witnesses were all over the map—some “positive” that Sacco and Vanzetti were the gunmen, others uncertain.
They were murdered for the sake of justice! Victims of the red scare. To this date the US government refuses to acknowledge the injustice!
Everything is tragic in this story: the interest in attacks by sacco and vanzetti (anarchists, not altar boys), as well as indecisive guilt used for terrible death penalty. The only beautiful thing that remains is the melody of Morriconne Here's to you performed by J. Baez
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Set up by the State…
It appears these gentlemen left their White Privilege Passes at Ellis Island. Not sure what happened there.
though this case was exploited by all sides, they ended up being guilty - which is part of a odd pattern where passionate people attach themselves to dubious cases that ultimately undo the legitimacy of their cause -
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