Committee files, 1927-1939 (bulk 1927)

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Committee files, 1927-1939 (bulk 1927)

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The advisory committee appointed by Gov. Fuller on June 1, 1927 was chaired by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, and included Samuel Wesley Stratton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert Grant, former Suffolk County probate judge. The committee was charged with reviewing the trial proceedings and any new evidence to determine if there were a reasonable doubt as to the defendants' guilt. After hearings held during July, the committee issued a report on July 27, endorsing the 1921 verdict. Files include: documents presented to the committee; lists of witnessess at the trial and before the committee; defendants' briefs to the committee; drafts of committee report to Gov. Fuller with annotatations by Lowell; correspondence among committee members, state officials, defense counsel, June-July 1927, and Lowell's correspondence relating to appointment and conclusions of the committee, 1927-1939; printed materials (clippings, pamphlets, periodicals) relating to the trial from the U.S. and abroad.

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Massachusetts. Governor (1925-1929 : Fuller)

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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...

Fuller, Alvan T. (Alvan Tufts), 1878-1958

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Massachusetts. Governor's Advisory Committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.

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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...

Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...