Sacco-Vanzetti case records, 1920-1928.

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Sacco-Vanzetti case records, 1920-1928.

1920-1928

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80018119

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, depositions, legal documents, transcripts of testimony, hearings, arguments, motions, briefs, and other court records, research notes, memorabilia, blueprints, printed material, clippings, and photosgraphs pertaining primarily to the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchists who were tried and executed for murder. Includes "office testimony" not included in the published transcript. Correspondents include Herbert B. Ehrmann, Felix Frankfurter, Dudley P. Ranney, Webster Thayer, and William Goodrich Thompson.

2000 items.2 microfilm reels.

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 8074106

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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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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Thompson, William Goodrich, 1864-1935

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Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

Ranney, Dudley P.

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Thayer, Webster.

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Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-

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Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1891-1970: Lawyer, author. Member, War Labor Policies Bd., 1918-1919; director, Industrial Relations Div. U.S. Shipping Bd., 1919. Junior counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, 1926-1927. Pres., American Jewish Committee, 1959-1961. Author: The Untried Case (1933 and 1960); The Case That Will Not Die (1969); Under This Roof (1940); The Criminal Courts of Cleveland (1921, with Reginald Haber Smith). From the description of Papers of Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1906-1970 (...