Sacco-Vanzetti collection, 1927.

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Sacco-Vanzetti collection, 1927.

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Collection consists of 4 pamphlets published in 1927 by defense committees organized on behalf of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists, who were tried and convicted of murder and robbery in Dedham, Massachusetts. The pamphlets were written in the months immediately preceding the August execution of the two men. The pamphlets contain summaries of testimony, copies of affidavists, extracts of arguments to the court, and a copy of Vanzetti's petition to the governor. The pamphlets were published by the Independent Sacco-Vanzetti Committee and the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee. Louis Bernheimer and Michael A. Cohn [Cohen] are added authors.

4 pamphlets.

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927

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Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted S...

Cohn, Michael A., 1867-1939.

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Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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Bernheimer, Louis

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