Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti weren’t famous during most of their lives. They were, respectively, a shoemaker and a fish peddler. Their deaths, however, earned a front-page headline in the New ...

Scarred by World War I, the United States experienced hard, troubled, and frightening times from 1918-1920. The government imprisoned and deported hundreds of communists and agitators entering the ...

Their case is almost a century old, but the April 15-17 retrospective co-sponsored by the town and its historical society demonstrated that there continues to be interest in shoemaker Nicola Sacco and ...

THE names of the "good shoe-maker and poor fish-peddler" have ceased to represent merely two Italian workingmen. Throughout the civilised world Sacco and Vanzetti have become a symbol, the shibboleth ...

Charlestown State Prison, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 23 -- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in the electric chair early this morning, carrying out the sentence imposed on them for the South ...

Barbara Howard: This is All Things Considered, I'm Barbara Howard. Ninety years ago today, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — ...

Judging from a new film and two new books, Sacco and Vanzetti remain — 80 years after their controversial execution — the chosen poster boys of those seeking to stigmatize the American justice system.

Long before they had expiated their crimes in the death chair, the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, perhaps the most talked of individuals in the world, had become scarcely more than ...

How did you get interested in filmmaking? I intended to do political activist work after I finished college in the 1980s, but I always had a passion for film lurking in the back of my mind. After a ...

It was dubbed by many as a kangaroo trial, rife with evidence that had been tampered with, waffling witnesses, prejudice and a legal system that provided no check to a judge’s power. In the end, Judge ...

The 1927 executions of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had important elements in common with the Cold War executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the espionage conviction of Alger ...

“I wanted a roof for every family, bread for every mouth, education for every heart, light for every intellect. I am convinced that the human history has not yet begun–that we find ourselves in the ...