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Sacco and Vanzetti face electric chair...
Sacco and Vanzetti face electric chair...
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August 02, 1927
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, August 2, 1927
* Sacco and Vanzetti faces the electric chair
* Famous trial ending
This 12 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "FULLER HEARS LAST WITNESSES IN SACCO CASE" with subheads. (see)
Other news of the day. Light browning with little margin wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888) both executed August 23, 1927, were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Today, the case continues to incite controversy based on questions regarding culpability, the question of the innocence or guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti, and conformance, the question of whether the trials were fair to Sacco and Vanzetti.
On August 23, 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation declaring, "Any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. We are not here to say whether these men are guilty or innocent. We are here to say that the high standards of justice, which we in Massachusetts take such pride in, failed Sacco and Vanzetti."
Category: The 20th Century
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