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Incrediblyafter all that has been saidthe Sacco and Vanzetti case comes up in a major and moving work. This is probably the best, certainly the most painstaking and panoramic book yet written about Americas tortuous cause celebre. Francis Russell has produced a remarkable reconstruction, full of conflicting personalities and particulars set against a social background of irreconcilable positions, heartfelt passions. Vanzetti, a fishpeddler who read Darwin and Marx, Dante and Renan, and Sacco, a piece worker with wife and children, were both members of a New England anarchist group, and both were Italian immigrants nameless, in a crowd of nameless ones. Accused of murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard, their subsequent trial, extending over seven years, influenced the spirit of the twenties from Massachusetts to Europe and ignited a courtroom drama unlike anything seen before (a browbeating district attorney, a self-sacrificing lawyer, a rasping judge, the Madeiros confession, demonstrations, bombings and bombast), only to end in the electric chair for the defendants. It also had its share of double-edged ironies: at a time when anarchists were being secretly liquidated in the Soviet, the Communist International was calling for propagandistic party-line support of the two martyrs, and, on the other hand, old Yankee fear of radicalism and revolution was openly prejudicing the jury, thus Sacco and Vanzetti became pawns in the class struggles of both sides. As to the authors verdict: Vanzetti was innocent, Sacco guilty; of this recent ballistic tests leave small doubt. A stunning study.Kirkus Reviews
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TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM
THE STORY OF THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE
BY
FRANCIS RUSSELL
In his Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard,
Lowes Dickinson inquired,
Is immortality desirable?
I almost think it is, if only to get at the truth of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
FERRIS GREENSLET
Contents
June 2. Attorney General Palmers house bombed, Washington, D.C.
November 7. First of the Palmer Red raids.
November 23. Buick belonging to F. J. Murphy stolen in Needham.
December 22. License plates stolen from Hassams garage, Needham.
December 24. Bridgewater holdup.
January 2. Red raids in thirty-three cities.
January 6-7. License plates stolen from car, Needham.
February 25. Elia and Salsedo detained in New York by Department of Justice.
April 15. Holdup and murders in South Braintree.
April 17. Discovery of abandoned Murphy Buick.
April 20. Stewart interviews Boda.
April 25. Vanzetti goes to New York.
May 5. Sacco and Vanzetti arrested.
May 6. Orciani arrested. Katzmann questions Sacco and Vanzetti. Saccos preliminary hearing on South Braintree charge.
May 11. Orciani released.
May 18. Vanzettis preliminary hearing on South Braintree charge.
June 11. Vanzetti indicted for Bridgewater holdup.
June 22-July 1. Vanzetti tried for Bridgewater holdup.
August 16. Vanzetti sentenced.
August 19. Fred Moore takes up defense of Sacco and Vanzetti.
September 16. Wall Street bomb explosion.
January. Negotiations between Angelina DeFalco and Defense Committee.
May 31-July 14. Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.
October. Mass demonstrations in Europe against verdict.
October 29, November 5. Motion for new trial argued.
November 8. First supplementary (Ripley) motion filed.
December 24. Thayer denies motion for new trial.
May 4. Second supplementary (Gould-Pelser) motion filed.
July 22. Third supplementary (Goodridge) motion filed.
September 11. Fourth supplementary (Andrews) motion filed.
March 8. William Thompson agrees to argue supplementary motions.
April 23. Sacco committed to Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
April 30. Fifth supplementary (Hamilton-Proctor) motion filed.
September 29. Sacco discharged from Bridgewater Hospital.
October 1-November 8. Hearings on the supplementary motions.
August. Moore withdraws from case.
October 1. Thayer denies all five supplementary motions.
January 2-May 28. Vanzetti committed to Bridgewater Hospital.
June. International Labor Defense takes up case.
November 18. Madeiros confesses.
February. Renewed demonstrations overseas.
May 12. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejects Thompsons appeal from Thayers denial of the supplementary motions; convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti confirmed.
May 15-20. Madeiros second trial.
May 22. Herbert Ehrmann finds trail of Morelli gang.
May 26. Motion based on Madeiros confession filed.
June 2. Samuel Johnsons house bombed.
September 13-17. Thompson argues Madeiros motion before Thayer.
October 23. Thayer denies Madeiros motion.
January 27, 28. Thompson appeals Thayers denial of October 23 to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
March. Frankfurters Atlantic Monthly article.
April 5. Supreme Court affirms Thayers denial of October 23.
April 9. Sacco and Vanzetti sentenced.
May 4. Governor Fuller receives Vanzettis clemency petition.
June 1. Fuller appoints Advisory (Lowell) Committee.
June 3. Calvin Goddard tests shells and bullets.
July 27. Lowell Committee reports findings to Governor Fuller.
August 3. Fuller refuses clemency.
August 5. Bombings in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore.
August 7. Lowell Committee report made public.
August 15. Juror McHardys house dynamited.
August 23. Madeiros, Sacco, and Vanzetti executed.
September 27. Thayers house bombed.
April 2. Massachusetts Legislature Committee hearing on posthumous pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti.
October 11. Re-examination of ballistics evidence by Jac Weller and Frank Jury.
The case of Sacco and Vanzetti, which began as the prosecution for a commonplace if brutal murder, developed gradually into one of the worlds great trials. In the end it was much more than a trial. It became one of those events that divide a society. Although the issues that it raised have been overlaid by war and political events, they never wholly die. Even today middle-aged men and women, hearing by some chance the names Sacco and Vanzetti, still find themselves stirred by the passion and violence of their younger days. Sacco and Vanzetti have become a symbol, and, like all symbols, the meaning varies with those who adopt it.
I myself do not have any memory of the trial, being then in the sixth grade of the Boston public schools, but I do remember from my eighteenth year the agitation and excitement of those summer weeks in 1927 preceding the two mens execution. The day they were to die I spent the better part of the afternoon walking over Beacon Hill and across the Common in the muted August sunshine. Police were everywhere, hard-faced and angry, some of them carrying riflesa thing I had never seen before. Pickets with placards marched up and down before the Bulfinch faade of the State House. Periodically the police carted groups of them away in a patrol wagon to the Joy Street Station. Almost at once their places were filled by others. Buses kept arriving from New York hung with signs proclaiming SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST NOT DIE! and trailing red paper streamers. As the buses pulled into Park Square those inside began to sing The Red Flag. They looked like foreigners, most of them. I did not like their looks. I sensed in myself the hostility of the bourgeois world toward those two men. In spite of any pickets and red-streamered buses from New York, I knew that they were going to die that night. As I walked under the lindens on the Tremont Street side of the Frog Pond I felt a sense of oneness with the community that was asserting itself. I was glad Sacco and Vanzetti were going to die.
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