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Pusey Library will issue a statement concerning the release of the Sacco-Vanzetti papers within a week, Harley P. Holden, curator of the University Archives, said yesterday...
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for the murders of a factory paymaster and guard during a robbery in 1920. Many people believe the two were convicted because of their anarchist beliefs. Lowell served on a committee formed to review the conviction...
...OPENING last week of papers relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti case--papers which once belonged to former Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877--may shed new light on the controversy which has swirled around the case since 1927, when the two self-proclaimed anarchists--Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti--were arrested, tried, convicted and executed in connection with a double murder that took place during a bank robbery...
...files apparently contain information which, for instance, may help clarify the adversary relationship which developed between Lowell--a member of Governor Alvan T. Fuller's commission to investigate the case--and then-Law School Dean Felix Frankfurter--a Sacco-Vanzetti suporter...
Lowell served on the committee appointed by then-Massachusetts Gov. Alvan T. Fuller to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case following the men's execution...