The 1920s trial and executions of Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, trouble and intrigue us decades later. Visit the Sacco and Vanzetti: Justice on Trial exhibit at the John Adams Courthouse to better understand this crucial episode in American history and learn about the importance of striving to be, in the words of the Massachusetts Constitution, "a government of laws and not of men."
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Law Library The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti
| Organization: | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts Court System |
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| Date published: | April 30, 2018 |
Table of Contents
- Justice on Trial
- The Red Scare of 1919–1920
- The crime scene
- Investigation and arrest
- Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
- The trial
- The setting
- The evidence
- Cross-examination of the defendants
- Judge Thayer's charge to the jury
- Motions for a new trial
- The Madeiros confession & Felix Frankfurter
- Appeals & death sentence
- The Lowell Committee
- A national and international sensation
- The executions & funeral
- Proclamation
- The aftermath
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