Sacco and Vanzetti case is one of the most popular cases of the Roaring Twenties. It was a rough time for the immigrants with rising tide of anarchist movements. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were to Italian emigrants who were convicted at the wrong time.
Nicola Sacco was a 32-year-old shoemaker and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was 29-year-old fish peddler. They were accused for a double murder of a paymaster and payroll carrying payroll of $15,776, were shot to death during a robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts.
The police department recognized the crime to committed by the anarchist and radical groups, who were robbed to fund their programs. Professor Charles Zappia from San Diego Mesa College San Diego claims,” It was easy for authorities
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Historian Christopher Daley states,” nether of had any criminal record
Sacco gun
Nunzio Pernicone, the leading historian of Italian anarchism in the United States claimed, “All the anarchist members knew that Vanzetti was innocent as per the participation of the killing and Sacco was guilty for murder; Vanzetti was right about him selling fish in Plymouth but might have a little knowledge about the murder happening”.
Lawrence Lowell, Former president of Harvard university with his team committee reviewed the case and determined to give them a fair trial. Lowell leader of the committee stated,” I wish I could have stopped the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, but all the member of my committee found them guilty without a doubt”. Lowell daily received bomb threats through mail and telephone.
Stated, “Sacco and Vanzetti were not treated fairly and no shame shall be brought to their names”
Douglas O. Linder, professor and historian of University of Missouri mentions,” Sacco and Vanzetti were two innocent victims, who were used to send a political and economic message to the rising tide of anarchist