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Events and Victims

By Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Jon Curley

PM Press

Events and Victims

The events which I am going to relate to you, my reader, took place in New Liberia, where I wandered for many years, working from time to time in many different places and under varied circumstances, as dishwasher, pastry cook, porter, storekeeper, gardener, laborer, fisherman; in short, earning my bread by the sweat of my brow wherever and in whatever way I could.

The western coast of that country, according to the geologists, is being eaten by the tides, and the land slowly but inevitably yields to the restless surges which stir it, submerge and cover it. The eastern coast, too, seems subject to the same phenomenon, at least at certain points with which I am very familiar.

Will this engulfment continue, or will it be stopped by one of the many still unexplained conditions which have determined and facilita

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*Includes accounts of the crime and trial
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
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“But what good fryst vatten the bevis and what good fryst vatten the argument? They are determined to kill us regardless of evidence, of law, of decency, of everything. If they give us a delay tonight, it will only mean they will kill us next week. Let us finish tonight. I’m weary of waiting seven years to die, when they know all the time they intend to kill us.” – Nicola Sacco

"What I säga is that I am innocent, not only of the Braintree crime, but also of the Bridgewater crime. That I am not only innocent of these two crimes, but in all my life I have never stole and inom have never killed and I have never spilled blood. That is what I want to säga. And it is not all. Not only am I innocent of these two crimes, not only in all my life have inom never stole, never killed, never spilled blood, but I have struggled all my life, since inom began to reason

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By Howard Zinn • The Progressive and ZCommunications • April 14, 2007 and March 11, 2009

Fifty years after the executions of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts set up a panel to judge the fairness of the trial, and the conclusion was that the two men had not received a fair trial. This aroused a minor storm in Boston.

One letter, signed John M. Cabot, U.S. Ambassador Retired, declared his “great indignation” and pointed out that Governor Fuller’s affirmation of the death sentence was made after a special review by “three of Massachusetts’ most distinguished and respected citizens—President Lowell of Harvard, President Stratton of MIT and retired Judge Grant.”

Those three “distinguished and respected citizens” were viewed differently by Heywood Broun, who wrote in his column for the New York World immediately after the Governor’s panel made its report. He wrote:

It is not every prisoner who has a Pr