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...Nicola Sacco, a shoe-worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish-peddler, were arrested on Brockton street car. They were both Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists. They were soon charged with a double murder and payroll robbery committed three weeks earlier in South Braintree, Mass...
...staccato ring of a contemporary editorial, but the words are from John Dos Passos' U.S.A., circa 1936. The outburst was triggered by the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of a Massachusetts robbery and killing, and tried in the atmosphere of '20s xenophobia...
...country. Director Giuliano Montaldo reconstructs the trial as if it were a kangaroo court and treats the men like innocents. This version makes dramatic sense, but it is, unfortunately, at odds with the truth. In a painstakingly researched book, Tragedy in Dedham, Francis Russell proved nine years ago that Nicola Sacco was indeed implicated in the murder of which he was accused. "Beyond everything else," wrote Russell, "we know that the passionately held belief that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent philosophical anarchists done to death by a reactionary and fearful capitalist society is, after all, a myth...
...celebrated trials of this century that carried strong political overtones-Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the eleven Communist leaders in the 1949 Dennis case. Undoubtedly a greater share of the blame for the breakdown rests on the defendants than on the judge. Still, Boston Attorney Herbert Ehrmann, who defended Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s, says of the Chicago trials: "The conduct of the judge and the actions of the defendants were all disgraceful. The whole episode was a disgrace to American justice." The American judicial system as a whole is far sounder than the trial suggested...
...HELEN M. NICOLA Seattle...