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.

             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 raised his own garden in .

             which he spent all his free time there and gave the vegetables to the less fortunate. He also .

             served as a night watchman for the shoe factory.

             At the outbreak of World War One, both Sacco and Vanzetti moved to Mexico, along .

             with some sixty of their fellow countryman. . Sacco left his wife and young son behind in .

             Massachusetts. His decision to flee to Mexico to escape military service was done not so much to .

             evade the draft, but to support Galleani's (the leading thinker in anarchism for Italian-Americans) .

             contention that the war was for capitalists, and not for the common people. After a few months, .

             he became homesick for his family, and returned to Stoughton and resumed his job at the 3-K .

             Shoe Factory.