Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the State Prison at Charlestown. They fully understood that they were to die immediately after midnight. Mr. Ehrmann and I, having on their behalf ...

Heywood Brown August 6, 1927 If Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, neither was he the most impassioned. The conviction of the poor fish-peddler ...

From Broun's first article on the case: To me, the tragedy of the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti lies in the fact that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a ...

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were "victims of an unfair trial and a biased judge," Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. '19, Francis Lee Higginbottom Professor of History, Emeritus, said yesterday. Last Thursday ...

Professor Bortman recently published his first book, *Sacco and Vanzetti*, for Commonwealth Editions. He has also contributed a number of chapters to American history textbooks. Areas of expertise ...

On Aug. 23, 1926, silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino died at the age of 31. The actor became ill with ulcers and after surgery fell into a coma and died. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 ...