SACCO AND VANZETTI Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of the short-lived Red Scare‚ which was the United States’ fear of the growing power of Communists‚ or Reds. When a factory paymaster was robbed and murdered along with his guard‚ Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested after witnesses described the murderers as being Italian. Sacco was a shoemaker and Vanzetti was a fish peddler. Despite the fact that they had alibis and that there was only circumstantial evidence against them‚ they
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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial On April 15‚ 1920 a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree‚ Massachusetts was shot and killed. The killers were described as Italian men who escaped with $15‚776.51. Police found Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in a car shop with what they believed to be what was used as the getaway car. What turns out to have happened though is that Sacco and Vanzetti had participated in a separate crime on the same day as the robbery and killing. Police believed that both
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The case of Sacco and Vanzetti reflected in the fear of communism‚ immigration and anarchy to all those living in America during the 1920’s. As the commentators in the documentary debate whether or not the accusations of Sacco and Vanzetti murdering the payroll master and his guard were fair in this trial and if these two anarchists were guilty or not‚ I concluded that the aspects of the commentators towards the case was taken in a more personal matter. The narration of this documentary was told
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The Sacco and Vanzetti trial: Justice or Injustice? During the beginning of the twentieth century‚ the lives of two men waved in the balance‚ with the public begging for their freedom. While there were multiple suspects to the murders that were committed‚ the two Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were left chiefly in the investigator’s sights. After the case was taken to court‚ the defense for the two had garnered a significant amount of public awareness‚ pleading their innocence in the matter
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the 1920’s‚ and that includes the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two were tried for killing a paymaster and his bodyguard. They were sentenced to the death penalty for a crime that their involvement in was questionable. Many people protested to their sentence. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s court sentence sparked a large debate through the nation that continues today as to whether it was justifiable or not. Nicola Sacco worked a steady job at a shoe factory in Stoughton
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In recent discussions of Sacco and Vanzetti‚ a controversial issue has been whether or not the two men are innocent or guilty. On the one hand‚ some argue that they are innocent. From this perspective‚ there was little evidence to support the verdict. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that they were guilty. From this perspective‚ there are letters that were recently released that link them to the crime. In the words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti‚ “I am convinced that the human history has yet
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The murder case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is one of the most discriminatory and controversial trials to prevail throughout the history of Massachusetts’ courts. On July 14th‚ 1921‚ Sacco and Vanzetti were wrongfully found guilty of first degree murder; not because there was ample evidence suggesting they were guilty‚ but because of their political beliefs. When Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in 1920 (“The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial: A Chronology” p.2) many nations were
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian born anarchists living in the United States. The jury convicted and sentenced to death‚ both Sacco and Vanzetti‚ for the murder of a guard‚ and a paymaster‚ during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company. Nicola Sacco was a shoe operative‚ and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was a fish peddler‚ ordinary men with differing beliefs from the general public. The jury charged and convicted them of murder for their heritage and beliefs. Sacco and
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti had many faces in society such as Italian immigrant‚ fish seller‚ loving husband and father. He were a member of an extremely dangerous anarchist group in America. In 1920‚ Bartolomeo Vanzetti and his friend Nicola Sacco were arrested for payroll and murder in Braintree‚ Massachusetts. They were referred as “those anarchist bastards.” Judge Thayer hated anarchist. He heavily prejudiced against Italians. Eventually‚ Vanzetti and Sacco were found guilty of murder. The trials were
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Fiona Sacco and Venzetti ! After World War l all the countries that were in the war were going through an adjustment period to try to get back what they lost in the war. Vladamir Lenin‚ the Russian Premier‚ started Communism in Russia. He loved the idea of Communism and wanted to spread it around the world. Because of this America went through a period called the Red Scare‚ where Americans feared the spread of Communism to America. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti were two Italian immigrants
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