The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti: Written During the Seven Years (1920-1927) of Their Imprisonment

Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Marion Denman Frankfurter, Gardner Jackson

In 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, respectively a shoemaker and a fish peddler – and both devouted to the cause of anarchy – were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after being djudged guilty of the murder of a paymaster during a robbery in 1921. For six years the two men were imprisoned while journalists and poliical and religious leaders argued passionately about their guilt or innocence. Were they guilty of the rime as charged or were they murdered by the state because of their political belief?

status	Lost
genre	Anarchism » Anarchist History
publisher	Citadel Press
publish date	1928
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