Heywood Brown August 6, 1927 If Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, neither was he the most impassioned. The conviction of the poor fish-peddler ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the State Prison at Charlestown. They fully understood that they were to die immediately after midnight. Mr. Ehrmann and I, having on their behalf ...

From Broun's first article on the case: To me, the tragedy of the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti lies in the fact that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a ...

That of course was in a time later than this episode, this case of Sacco and Vanzetti which began so obscurely and ended as one of the important turning points in the history of this country ...

On Aug. 23, 1926, silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino died at the age of 31. The actor became ill with ulcers and after surgery fell into a coma and died. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 ...

Almost 250 were deported back to their home countries. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were suspected communists. They were ...

The film uses archived letters, speeches and documents to cover Bartolomeo Vanzetti's arrival to the United States as an immigrant, his involvement with Nicola Sacco, and the events of his trial ...

This was known as the Red Scare. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants. The two men acknowledged that they were radicals and that they had avoided serving in World War One.