Sacco and Vanzetti had met in 1916 at a factory strike and became friends, sharing their support for workers. Both were affiliated with radical groups calling for the overthrow of the United States.

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’s actual funeral drew about 200,000 Bostonians into the city streets, leading to confrontations with the police. In 2006, their circle was smaller — ...

vanzetti's history. Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on June 11, 1888, in Vulafalletto, an agricultural town in Piedmont, northern Italy. He was a natural student and won many scholastic prizes.

Nicola Sacco, a laborer, and Bartolemeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, on July 14, 1921, were convicted of murdering two men during a payroll robbery in Plymouth the year before.

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for the murder and robbery of a shoe factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. However, their guilt remained a subject of intense ...

We literally gasped at the set when we were among the first to enter the auditorium of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater ...