Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Sep 23, 2026
Gail CrowtherGUEST
They just won't do anything about anything."
Donna DingwallCORRESPONDENT
Dorothy Parker's political awakening is often tied back to the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Donna DingwallCORRESPONDENT
The Italian immigrants and anarchists were convicted of murder in what was seen as a miscarriage of justice fueled by racism and xenophobia.
Donna DingwallCORRESPONDENT
Parker was arrested in Boston for protesting their pending execution in 1927.
Daniele BolelliHOST
The transition was gradual, uneven, and sometimes interrupted by reminders that there were still plenty of Americans who regarded them as dangerous foreigners.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Perhaps no case demonstrates this better than that of two Italian immigrants whose name would eventually become synonymous with injustice, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Now, Sacco and Vanzetti were very different men from the Sicilian fruit vendors and laborers we have been talking about.
Daniele BolelliHOST
They were not just poor Italian immigrants trying to find work and build a better life.
Daniele BolelliHOST
The robbers escaped with the money.
Daniele BolelliHOST
The crime was dramatic enough on its own, but investigators quickly began looking for Italian Radical.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested shortly afterwards.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Sacco was a shoemaker, Vanzetti a fish peddler.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
One of the arrested men has an alibi for the day of the shooting, but the other two do not.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged with robbery and murder.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
But the evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti is thin.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
The car in the garage doesn't match the witness's description.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
It's an Oldsmobile, not a Buick.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
And although Sacco and Vanzetti both own guns like used in the robbery, they're a common type, and thousands of other weapons could be a match, too.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
This leads anarchists to view the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti as another attempt to intimidate and unfairly target them, just like the Palmer Raids.
Lindsay GrahamHOST
But their protests don't stop prosecutors from indicting Sacco and Vanzetti for murder after a three-month investigation.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
But despite a lengthy inquiry into the origin of the flyers, the Bureau was never able to trace exactly where or by who they had been printed.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
Another possible motive for the timing of the bomb that would link it to radical anarchists was that two days before the bombing, Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had been indicted for the murder of a watchman during an armed robbery in Massachusetts.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
The evidence behind it was always quite flimsy, and it was widely believed that they had been targeted because of their anarchist politics.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
And then their trial the following year was yet another one for our trial of the century pile.