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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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