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- A little more than a year later, a jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of robbery and murder — even though the evidence against the two was mostly circumstantial, according to Moshik Temkin, a professor of History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial.
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Aug 22, 2017 · A little more than a year later, a jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of robbery and murder — even though the evidence against the two was mostly circumstantial, according to Moshik Temkin, a...
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Aug 30, 2024 · Sacco and Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts (1921–27) that resulted in their executions. Many people felt that the trial had been unfair and that the two men had been convicted for their radical anarchist beliefs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On the afternoon of April 15, 1920, two men were killed in a payroll robbery at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. At approximately 3:05 p.m., paymaster Frederick A. Parmenter and guard Alessandro Berardelli left the company's executive office carrying a cash payroll of $15,776.51.
Sacco and Vanzetti went on trial for their lives on May 31, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, for the Braintree robbery and murders. Webster Thayer again presided; he had asked to be assigned to the trial. Katzmann again prosecuted for the State.
May 27, 2021 · Beyond that, the crime for which they were convicted and sentenced to death—two murders committed during a robbery at a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920—was not a...
- Annika Neklason
No one told him or Vanzetti they were suspected of robbery and murder; instead, the two Italians assumed they’d been arrested over their staunch anarchist views.
The world will probably never know whether Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were truly guilty of murdering two men in 1920. But the controversial trial of these immigrant anarchists is considered one of the 20th century's most famous.
