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...Sacco and Vanzetti case stands -in the opinion of some-as a landmark in U.S. legal history, showing just how far justice can go off the track. According to that view, the two Italian anarchists were convicted and executed for a 1920 holdup-murder on conflicting and circumstantial evidence. The National Park Service seems to agree. In a recent letter to the Norfolk, Mass., county commission, the service suggested that the granite Greek-revival courthouse in which the case was tried should be made into a national landmark. Displaying a touch of radical chic, the Park Service argued that...
...often inspired, vigorous, and widely respected college president. He was also vain, stubborn, bigoted, and capable of immense pettiness. Lowell sent Harvard students across the River to scab during the Boston Police strike of 1919. He served as chairman of a Commission which upheld the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti. He also expanded and developed the curriculum, upgraded the faculty, introduced order into Eliot's elective system, and conceived and constructed the House System. In the Lowell years, in turn. The Crimson seemed to reflect the nature of the complex man who was President of Harvard. Starting...
...sustaining which (supposedly) delivered nuclear society to the Soviet Union, no liberals or CP members disputed the judgement expect for the Rosenbergs themselves. Only after the trial's impression of conclusiveness wore out did many left politicos take action. They tried to associate the Rosenbergs with Sacco and Vanzetti and Major Drevtus, rhetorically capitalizing on the couples politics and Judaism. They petitioned the governments for leniency, and staged mercy pageants featuring the spectacle of the Rosenberg children. But they neither Kept the husband and wife from trying, nor convinced the politically unconverted of judicial illegality. What was remarkable about...
...history he embodied was a thoroughly disreputable part of the American past. It is the history of the "Red Raids," of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, of the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans, of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, of the Hollywood Ten, of the blacklist, of "twenty years of treason...
...court one afternoon for the trial of a robbery suspect he has brought in, Morgan observes: "We have a very diligent bunch of young public defend ers around here who . . . will drive you up the wall defending a chicken shit burglary like it was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial." Knowing that a suspect is guilty, Bumper lies on the stand about the circumstances of the arrest, partly to protect one of his informants, partly to ensure that the man gets convicted. Out on the streets, Wambaugh suggests, cops have to make their own accommodations...