Sacco and Vanzetti had met in 1916 at a factory strike and became friends, sharing their support for workers. Both were affiliated with radical groups calling for the overthrow of the United States.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco both immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1908. Sacco worked as a skilled shoemaker and Vanzeti sold fish. Neither led a life of crime.

N icola 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 ...

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact ...

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 ...

Sacco and Vanzetti’s actual funeral drew about 200,000 Bostonians into the city streets, leading to confrontations with the police. In 2006, their circle was smaller — ...

The crimes for which Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested were an unsuccessful attempt to capture a pay roll at Bridgewater on December 24, 1919, and a hold-up at Braintree on April 15, 1920, in which ...

SACCO and Vanzetti were railroaded into the electric chair! But first, a history lesson: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants executed for a 1920 payroll robbery in a Boston… ...

Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were a cause celebre of the 1920s, convicted of murder and executed after a trial many felt was a farce. Author Upton Sinclair wrote extensively ...

Barbara Howard: This is All Things Considered, I'm Barbara Howard. Ninety years ago today, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — ...