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.

WELLFLEET — When you walk into Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater for the premiere of Kevin Rice’s “Sacco & Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy,” your eyes are immediately drawn to the 12 white, featureless, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

“Sacco and Vanzetti,” which went to Cannes in 1971, stars the late Gian Maria Volonté as Vanzetti, while Sacco was played by Riccardo Cucciolla, who won the best actor award at Cannes for ...