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Sacco and Vanzetti Executed in 1927...



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August 26, 1927

SPRINGFIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, August 26, 1927 

* Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti 
* Electric chair executions 

This 26 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "MORBID CROWDS VIEW BODIES OF SACCO, VANZETTI" "NEAREST FRIENDS KISS MEN'S BROWS" and more. (see)

Other news of the day. Light browning with little margin wear, otherwise good.

wikipedia notes: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born American anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and executed via electrocution in the American state of Massachusetts. There is much controversy regarding their guilt, stirred in part by Upton Sinclair's 1928 novel Boston. Critics of the trial have accused the prosecution and trial judge of allowing anti-Italianism, anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist sentiment to influence the jury's verdict. 

Category: The 20th Century