For more than six years the Sacco-Vanzetti case has been before the courts of Massachusetts. In a state where ordinary murder trials are promptly dispatched such extraordinary delay in itself ...

After a police investigation, two Italian immigrants — Nicola Sacco, a 32-year-old shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a 29-year-old fish peddler — became suspects. On May 5, 1920, at around ...

Long before they had expiated their crimes in the death chair, the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, perhaps the most talked of individuals in the world, had become scarcely more than ...

In 1927, despite worldwide demonstrations on their behalf, the state of Massachusetts executed Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder. In 1939, Nazi Germany and ...

Italian anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on this day in 1927. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here. Sacco and Vanzetti ...

whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti” about the Massachusetts trial and execution in 1927 of accused Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ...