Sacco and Vanzetti case file, 1919-1976 (bulk 1920-1927).

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Sacco and Vanzetti case file, 1919-1976 (bulk 1920-1927).

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As chief legal officer of the Commonwealth, the attorney general was kept apprised of developments in the case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Sacco and Vanzetti, leading to creation of this case file.

0.35 cubic ft. (1 doc. box)1 folder ; 40 x 50 cm.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8226554

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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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...

Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office

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In connection with a robbery and murders committed Apr. 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted Sept. 1920 and prosecuted and convicted in 1921 in Norfolk Superior Court. After reviews of the trial and conviction by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and by an advisory committee appointed by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and denial of petitions by defense counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, the sentence of execution originally imposed on Sacco and V...