Frederick Parmenter; Alessandro Bernedelli; Michael Stewart; Ferruccio Concci; Simon Johnson; Mario Buda; Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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1920: Two men carrying their company payroll in South Braintree are shot down in the middle of the street and the money stolen. The police investigation leads them to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Luigi Galleani; J. P. Morgan Jr.; John D. Rockefeller; A. Mitchell Palmer; Andrea Salsedo; Roberto Ella; Ruth Johnson; Simon Johnson; Webster Thayer; John P. Vahey; Frederick G. Katzmann
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The story of Sacco and Vanzetti's involvement in the anarchist movement.
Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Webster Thayer; Frederick G. Katzmann; Harold P. Williams; Fred Moore; Carlo Tresca; Mary Heaton Vorse; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Aldo Felicani; William Callahan; Jeremiah McAnarny; Thomas McAnarny; William Proctor; Charles Van Amburgh
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Sacco and Vanzetti are placed on trial. Ballistics evidence seems to implicate them.
Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Walter Ripley; William Proctor; Webster Thayer; Harold P. Williams; Fred Moore; Charles Van Amburgh; Elizabeth Evans; William G. Thompson; Celestino Madeiros; Joe Morelli; Steve Benkoski; Mary Donovan; Gardner Jackson; Felix Frankfurter
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The appeals process for Sacco and Vanzetti carries on but with little hope for change, particularly as the same judge responsible for the trial is also responsible for the appeals.
Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Mary Donovan; H. G. Wells; Clarence Darrow; Dorothy Parker; Albert Einstein; Upton Sinclair; George Bernard Shaw; H. L. Mencken; Edna St. Vincent Millay; William Allen White; John Dos Passos; Alvin T. Fuller; Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Samuel W. Stratton; Robert Grant; Webster Thayer; Herbert Ehrman; Arthur Hill; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Michael Musmano; Josef Stalin; Benito Mussolini; Carlo Tresca; Michael Dukakis
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Sacco and Vanzetti's cause is picked up by socialist causes around the world, but to no avail. In 1927, both men are executed. Although pardoned in 1977, debates continue as to whether they were innocent or guilty.