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Sacco and Vanzetti: Guilty After All?

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From: Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20060304
Author:DEBBIE ELLIOTT

DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
03-04-2006
Sacco and Vanzetti: Guilty After All?

Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM

DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host:

A California man browsing through boxes at an auction unearthed a fascinating discovery, a dusty letter dated 1929 from famed muckraker Upton Sinclair. Sinclair had just published a novel called Boston about the murder trial of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Sacco and Vanzetti were a cause clbre during the 1920s. Left-leaning intellectuals, including Sinclair, championed their innocence. Their eventual execution in ...

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