Sacco and Vanzetti

A detailed Summary of Sacco and Vanzetti

The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the Braintree, Massachusetts

payroll robbery and murders is the most politically publicized murder case in the history of

American law. Were they tried, convicted, and executed for murder, or for their disloyalty to the

American capitalistic way of life? Whatever the truth of their guilt or innocence, no other crime

story of our century has created so much controversy.

First off I will tell you a bit about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti. Next, I will

explain the crime. Then I will tell you about the trial. Finally, I will tell you the

what happen in future years after the trial.

Nicola Sacco was an immigrant from Italy. He came to the United States in 1908. He was

seventeen when he followed a brother to America. He settled in Massachusetts, and, after

working as a laborer, received training as a shoe edger. He married an Italian girl, Rosina, and in

1913, his son, Dante was born. He was a hard worker and at the time of the trial, he had been

averaging the not inconsiderable sum of fifty dollars a week. He had saved close to $1,500. He

worked at of the 3K Shoe Factory in Stoughton, Massachusetts. He also raise

However, there story just didn't end there. Six months later, the executioner's house was

Like Sacco, Vanzetti's first years in America were as a laborer. He worked as a

The defense tried to build up both of their alibis but On July 14, 1921, after a little more

overcome the rationality, wisdom, and fairness to which our legal system aspires.

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