Word: vanzetti
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...School of the Americas, allegedly a factory for right-wing assassins, is the recipient of the 22nd Annual Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Award. The Rev. Nick Cardell, recently released from a six month sentence for protesting the school at Fort Bennings, Georgia, will be receiving the award on behalf of the school. 11 a.m., Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Copley Square...
...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
This '50-year rule" has long been criticized by historians for limiting and delaying scholarship on important pieces of University and local history, from the Sacco-Vanzetti case to Harvard research on the mentally retarded...
...Excluding the three presidential assassinations, the tragic Lindbergh kidnap-murder, and probably, but not certainly, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, few, if any, American crime stories so completely engrossed the public press, so totally grasped the attention of the American people as did the trial...of Harvard Professor John White Webster at the halfway mark of the 19th century," Sullivan wrote...
...filming is a fellow countrywoman. Thus the Germans from Der Spiegel have flown thousands of miles to cover the coverage of the trial, and end up with footage of a German reporter from Stern watching an American TV, while the trial takes place 300 yards away. Sacco and Vanzetti...