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 ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the ... on evidence which would not have convicted him had he not been an anarchist, so that he was in a very real sense dying for his cause.

Heywood Brown August 6, 1927 If Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, neither was he the most impassioned. The conviction of the poor fish-peddler ...

From Broun's first article on the case: To me, the tragedy of the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti lies in the fact that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a ...

Almost 250 were deported back to their home countries. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were suspected communists. They were ...

This was known as the Red Scare. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants. The two men acknowledged that they were radicals and that they had avoided serving in World War One.