In 1921 held in Dedham, Massachusetts on May 31, 1921, was a trial of accusations of a murder against two men. This trial was known as one of the most all time famous trials. A trial leading two men to their death. This trial was know as the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial. The two men went by the names of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nichola Sacco.
Vanzetti was born on June 11,1888 in Villafalletto, Northern Italy. Vanzetti emigrated to the U.S. on June of 1908. Sacco was born on April 22, 1891 in Torremaggiore, Southern Itlay. Sacco emigrated to the U.S. along with his brother Sabino on April 1908. They both met in the U.S. and became friends on September 1917.
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The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of communists, .
socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed .
the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist .
bombings. People were sentenced for speaking their views. .
Both Sacco and Vanzetti spoke of their views towards the .
accusations. There were 7 eyewitnesses, Andrews, Tracy, .
Heron, Pelser, Splaine, Delvin, and Goodridge.
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Four men attempted to rob the payroll of the L.Q. .
White Shoe Company in Bridgewater, Mass. The "shot-gun" .
bandit, shooting, but no one hurt. This operation was .
performed towards the people on the anarchists" ememies .
list, A. Mitchell Palmer, U.S. Attorney General J.P. Morgan,.
John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and .
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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The car used to rob the company, Mario Boda and .
Coacci were driving it and were going to meet up with Sacco .
and Vanzetti in Elm Square Garden at 10:00 at night. The .
owner of garage in which the stolen car was held, Simon .
Johnson, told Boda and Coacci to not take the car because .
the liscence plates were expired. At the same time his wife .
was calling the cops. So both men rode off on a motorcycle .
and were going to meet up with Sacco and Vanzetti who .
were then bording the streetcar. At the same time Sacco and .
Vanzetti were driving, the cops pulled them over and .
