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.

As we regularly do with our dinner and a show feature, we've planned a Cape Cod theater date night. This one has oysters and ...

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. August 23, 2002 | Page 8. SEVENTY-FIVE years ago this month, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti--two Italian immigrants--were executed in the state of Massachusetts.

Rothauser's film ends with Gov. Michael Dukakis’ declaration, Aug. 23, 1977, that Sacco and Vanzetti had been treated unjustly and any disgrace should be forever removed from their names.

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… ...

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 — ...

Therefore Sacco and Vanzetti had to die, notwithstanding the protests of the entire world. Yet Vanzetti was right when he declared that his execution was his greatest triumph, for all through history ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were born and raised in remote towns in Italy. They met when they emigrated to the United States in 1908. Sacco found work in a shoe factory, and Vanzetti was a fish peddler.

Indeed, the Sacco Vanzetti case is one of the most divisive in the history of the United States The murders for which Sacco and Vanzetti were executed took place on April 15, 1920, in South Braintree.

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 understood that whatever legal arguments their lawyers could come up with would not prevail against the reality of class injustice. Sacco told the court, on sentencing: "I know the ...