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This year, the 30th anniversary of the execution, was predictably marked by a flurry of retrospective books, articles, and essays. Seen from this distance, the trial seems to have serious implications for our democratic ideals and for our foreign relations with the Russians. Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to...
I lived through those days of trial, appeal, agitation, and execution. The executions look place a few months after I graduated from Harvard College. David C. Dow '27
I purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists...
Scenes such as the Isaacsons' execution, the demonstrations to free them (complete with Daniel and his sister. Susan, standing fear-fully at the podium with their parents lawyer), and the seemingly unwarranted descent of a swarm of FBI officials upon the Isaacson home are understandable as evocations of Daniel's...
FOR THE VIEWER who can accept this dichotomy, though, Daniel packs a stunning impact in both emotional intensity and social and political commentary. The 1940's scenes offer personal and touching glimpses of the Isaacsons family life and of the importance of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson's politics as a...