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	The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (overview)
		Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater.
		While neither Sacco nor Vanzetti had any previous criminal record, they were long recognized by the authorities and their communities as anarchist militants who had been extensively involved in labor strikes, political agitation, and antiwar propaganda and who had had several serious confrontations with the law.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927, a date that became a watershed in twentieth-century American history.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/sacvan.html (2166 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sacco and Vanzetti
		Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of $15,766.51 from the factory's payroll on April 15, 1920.
		Sacco was a shoe-maker born in Torremaggiore, Foggia.
		Sacco and Vanzetti both claimed to be victims of social and political prejudice and both claimed to be unjustly convicted of the crime for which they were accused.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sacco-and-Vanzetti (646 words)

	Who the real men were? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While Sacco never achieved the eloquence of Vanzetti, he wrote a number of remarkably moving letters to his wife and son, and later to his daughter, Inez, who was born while he was in prison.
		Sacco too is a worker from his boyhood, a skilled worker lover of work, with a good job and pay, a bank account, a good and lovely wife, two beautiful children and a neat little home at the verge of a wood, near a brook.
		Sacco is a heart, a faith, a character, a man; a man lover of nature, and of mankind.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/SaccoVanzetti/saccowho.htm (1399 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of $15,766.51 from the factory's payroll on April 15, 1920.
		Sacco was a shoe-maker born in Torremaggiore, Foggia.
		Sacco and Vanzetti both claimed to be victims of social and political prejudice and both claimed to be unjustly convicted of the crime for which they were accused.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti (4222 words)

	Sacco And Vanzetti
		SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.
		The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf.
		Through the tragic story of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the inspiring images of those who keep their memories alive, audiences will experience a universal – and very timely – tale of official injustice and human resilience.
	www.willowpondfilms.com /sacco_and_vanzetti.html (839 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sacco was found in possession of a loaded.32 caliber pistol and Vanzetti was in possession of a loaded shotgun, four shotgun shells, and a.38 caliber pistol.
		Vanzetti was found in possession of a nickel-plated pistol identical to the one carried by Berardelli but not recovered at the scene of the crime.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists whom the world perceived as unfairly judged on the basis of their radical beliefs.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~pyle/pla3013/sacco2.html (270 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is thought that the police, prosecutor s, judge and jury were prejudice d by the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrant s with an imperfect grasp of the English language and by their radical politics.
		Neither Sacco nor Vanzetti had any previous criminal record, nor did they consider themselves communists, but they were known to the authorities as radical militant s who had been widely involved in labor strike s, political agitation, and anti- war propaganda.
		The first inside confirmation of Sacco's guilt was provided in 1941 when anarchist leader Carlo Tresca told Max Eastman, "Sacco was guilty but Vanzetti was innocent." Eastman's published an article recounting his conversation with Tresca in National Review in 1961.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sacco_and_Vanzetti.html (376 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti on Trial
		Vanzetti’s pistol (.38 caliber revolver) was said to be the same type of gun the guard owned and was taken from the scene of the crime.
		Sacco and Vanzetti both were suspects in a series of bombings that led to the 1919 Palmer Raids.
		Sacco and Vanzetti both were involved in illegally selling anarchist literature.Three of Lewis Pelser’s co-workers said he hid underneath a bench during the entire episode.
	lancefuhrer.com /sacco_and_vanzetti_on_trial.htm (659 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sacco and Vanzetti were committed anarchists who had been active in many workers' struggles.
		There was no doubt about the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were on trial for their political beliefs and that the verdict when it came was a class verdict - the state was delivering a clear message to the US working class - steer well clear of anarchist thought or face the consequences.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were to spend the next six years in prison as appeal after appeal was turned down.
	www.struggle.ws /wsm/ws/2002/72/SandV.html (736 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti Summary
		Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of $15,766.51 from the factory's payroll on April 15, 1920.
		Sacco was a shoe-maker born in Torremaggiore, Foggia.
		Sacco for his part claimed that he was in Boston in order to gain a passport from the Italian consulate and have dinner with friends.
	www.bookrags.com /Sacco_and_Vanzetti (3473 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti
		Sacco and Vanzetti were born and raised in remote towns in Italy.
		Vanzetti was convicted of this earlier robbery, which made it much easier to build a case against the two men in the South Braintree crime.
		Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial lasted seven weeks, yet in a few short hours, the jury found the two men guilty, and they were sentenced to death by electrocution.
	socialistworker.org /2007-1/625/625_10_Sacco.shtml (1202 words)

	Sacco-Vanzetti Case - MSN Encarta
		Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who had arrived in the United States in 1908, were charged by the state with the murders of a paymaster and a guard and the theft of more than $15,000 from a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920.
		The state's case was based primarily upon two facts: Sacco possessed a pistol of the type used in the murders, and the accused when arrested were at a garage attempting to claim an automobile that had been seen in connection with the South Braintree crimes.
		In April 1927, however, the death sentence was pronounced for Sacco and Vanzetti.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761555301 (409 words)

	BDF - Big Damn History: Edition, The Fifth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sacco, a shoe maker, and Vanzetti, a fish seller, met while attending the performance of a witty humorist at a local theater on the Orpheum Circuit.
		Sacco and Vanzetti (as their oh-so-creative comedy team was named) began performing in local dime museums.
		As such, Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli during a robbery on April 15, 1920.
	www.bigdamnfunny.com /articles/history5.html (505 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Nicola Sacco (died 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), Italian-born anarchists, became the subject of one of America's most celebrated controversies and the focus for much of the liberal and radical protest of the 1920s in the United States.
		The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston in 1927 brought to an end a struggle of more than 6 years on the part of Americans and Europeans who had become convinced that they were innocent of the crimes of robbery and murder.
		Vanzetti, by contrast, was a bachelor and a wanderer.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/sacco-and-vanzetti (985 words)

	Digital History
		Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists who advocated the violent overthrow of capitalism.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were followers of Luigi Galleani, a radical Italian anarchist who had instigated a wave of bombings against public officials just after World War I. Carlo Valdinoci, a close associate of Galleani, had blown himself up while trying to plant a bomb at Attorney General Palmer's house.
		In 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted in a trial that was marred by prejudice against Italians, immigrants, and radical beliefs.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=445 (676 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti
		It’s clear from the proceedings that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted not because the evidence proved them guilty, but because they were anarchists and immigrants.
		Sacco, for example, was badgered by prosecutors as to why he dodged the draft rather than fight in the First World War.
		Vanzetti’s statement also is a testament to the impact the two men had: "If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men.
	www.nodeathpenalty.org /newab025/sandv.html (604 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti
		Sacco and Vanzetti both came to America in 1908.
		The crime that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of was a crime committed by a gang of professional crooks, not by two immigrant anarchists.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were framed by the DA and they were convicted by a jury that was looking for someone to blame and eager for that person to be an Italian American anarchist.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/mitigation/saccovanzetti.htm (1267 words)

	Remember Sacco and Vanzetti
		Vanzetti while working at unskilled labor for the Plymouth Cordage Co., had taken active part in a strike there for which he was fllisted.
		Sacco and Vanzetti thought they were arrested as anarchists; the police chief who interrogated them did indeed probe into their political beliefs.
		Sacco and Vanzetti met their death with courage and simple honesty as they had lived, protesting their innocence and proclaiming their faith in their credo of anarchism.
	www.weisbord.org /SaccoVanzetti.htm (3386 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti: A Vaudeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sacco shrugs his shoulders and instead concludes "la commedia e finita": The drama is over.
		The bars of their prison slide away, the back wall of the set (by William McNeil Marshall) becomes a theatrical poster for the two-person comedy team of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the auditorium becomes a vaudeville theater in which Sacco and Vanzetti re-enact their arrest and trial through songs, dance and comedy sketches.
		On a deeper level, the vaudeville format also dramatizes the cosmic farce of Sacco and Vanzetti's meaningless, wasteful deaths, and the pathos of having to wait out the final minutes of a life over which one has lost all control.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/sacco.html (673 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti film reviewed : Melbourne Indymedia
		Vanzetti was born on June 1, 1888 in northwest Italy, in the rural Piemonte town of Villafalleto, sixty kilometers south of the industrial city of Turin.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were opposed to the war and to the conscription implemented by Congress to fill the trenches.
		Sacco and Vanzetti will be showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from January 25 to February 11 and at the Quad Cinema in New York from March 23 to March 29.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/12/134656.php (2790 words)

	Sacco - Vanzetti Case FBI Files
		Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of murdering two men during a robbery attempt in South Braintree, MA, on April 15, 1920.
		The FBI came to believe that groups who were in support of Sacco and Vanzetti were making plans to take action against U.S. government officials in order to influence state officials to overturn their convictions.
		Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23rd, 1927.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /sacco.html (138 words)

	JURIST – Sacco and Vanzetti
		Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked.
		He also presented evidence that Sacco was absent from work on the day of the murders, wore a cap that resembled one found near Berardelli's body, and told a series of lies at the time of his arrest that suggested consciousness of guilt.
		As for Vanzetti, the report concluded: "On the whole, we are of the opinion that Vanzetti was also guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." When, based primarily on the Lowell report, Fuller decided against granting clemency, Sacco and Vanzetti's date with the electric chair appeared inevitable.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/sacco.php (4966 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Sacco and Vanzetti
		Sacco and Vanzetti were radical Italian immigrants who were convicted of murdering two Massachusetts men in a 1920 robbery, They were ordered executed after a trial in which much of...
		Sacco and Vanzetti were described as anarchists and executed, despite alibis and conflicting witness statements.
		Protest became feverish in 1927 with a demonstration against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists whose murder trial was internationally viewed as an indictment of radical politics.
	news.surfwax.com /dramatheatre/files/Sacco_and_Vanzetti.html (2258 words)

	A Journal for MultiMedia History review of a radio program, "Sacco and Vanzetti" (produced as part of the series, "The ...
		Sacco was driven westward by a sense of adventure and a desire for improvement, while Vanzetti left his homeland in sorrow after his mother’s death.
		Revolutionary violence, to Sacco and Vanzetti, was a wholly acceptable response to the institutionalized violence which was the foundation of the modern state.
		Sacco, who was a relatively prosperous worker, wrote to his daughter Ines, just weeks before his execution, that he felt his life had been blessed by the affection of his daughter, son, and wife.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol2no1/saccovanzetti.html (2321 words)

	MonthlyFeature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, on August 23, 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the state of Massachusetts.
		Sacco and Vanzetti - by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.
		Sacco and Vanzetti Project - online visual materials, documents, a bibliography, and a chronology from the Sacco and Vanzetti Educational Trust of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts.
	www.holtlaborlibrary.org /saccovanzetti.html (704 words)

	Sacco and Vanzetti
		This year, 2007, is the 80th anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution, and the issues that conditioned their assassination are as relevant as ever.
		The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society is honoring the two anarchist Italian immigrants on the 80th anniversary of their unjust execution.
		Fifty years after the executions of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts set up a panel to judge the fairness of the trial, and the conclusion was that the two men had not received a fair trial.
	saccoandvanzetti.org (1221 words)

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