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70 years later, jury remains out on . . . Sacco and Vanzetti.

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19970822
Author:Schorow, Stephanie

With riots, protests and bombs greeting the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti - 70 years ago tomorrow - few would dispute theirs was the trial of the century.

In a case that rocked the world, Vanzetti and Sacco - avowed anarchists who advocated the violent overthrow of capitalism - were accused of a double murder in Braintree, found guilty and electrocuted.

Thousands proclaimed their innocence, including writers Katherine Anne Porter, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker. Harvard law professor - later U.S. Supreme Court justice - Felix Frankfurter ...

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