Word: vanzettis
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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...
...trial of Sacco and Vanzetti progressed, it became apparent that the Commonwealth's case rested largely on uncertain eyewitness accounts and ambiguous ballistics evidence. The idea of a government conspiracy against two innocent but radical foreigners began to grow in the minds of liberals, intellectuals, socialists newspapermen and plain old New England folk...
...those who are familiar with the case and believe that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent and victims of an unfair trial, there are many tantalizing possibilities which may well have changed the verdict...
...What if Thayer's unusual request that he be appointed to preside at the trial had been denied, especially since he had also been the presiding judge at the Plymouth trial at which Vanzetti was convicted of an earlier robbery...
...What if Sacco and Vanzetti had been given separate trials...