Sacco and Vanzetti

It extends heavily to political beliefs and xenophobia.

Look at the internationally infamous case of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1921.

Two Italian immigrants who were also very vocal anarchists.

They were tried for robbery and murder in Massachusetts.

Modern historical consensus heavily leans toward their actual innocence.

They were convicted after just a few hours of jury deliberation.

Despite conflicting ballistics evidence, and despite another known criminal literally confessing to the crime, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted in 1927.

Their execution sparked massive, violent worldwide protests from Paris to Tokyo because the injustice was so blatant on a global stage.

He was the most liberal professor.

He represented Sacco and Vanzetti.

He did all the liberal things, and once he got on the Supreme Court, he became an advocate of judicial restraint because his job was different.

So he, he changed his attitude with a new job, and I think that was the right thing to do.

For office in Massachusetts, but lost.

She wrote three books and was arrested for protesting the guys who killed people, Sacco and Vanzetti.

Sounds familiar.

It's like the chicks protesting the Luigi Mangione now.

Just a new Italian murderer.

They

just picked two Italian dudes and were like, Sacco and Vanzetti did it.

I like that

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.

Now, Sacco and Vanzetti were very different men from the Sicilian fruit vendors and laborers we have been talking about.

They were not just poor Italian immigrants trying to find work and build a better life.

They were anarchists.

A number of Italian anarchists were also involved in bombings and assassination attempts.

These guys made no qualms about being political radicals.

But that's not why, at least in theory, Sacco and Vanzetti were on trial.

They weren't convicted of any of those other things.

In 1944, the FBI reopened the investigation and decided the bomb was the work of Italian anarchists.

There was speculation that the bomb was planted by an Italian in retaliation for the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Three days after the bombing, The New York Times reported it was said today at the Department of Justice that Attorney General Palmer would recommend in his annual report to Congress that drastic laws for dealing with anarchists and other disturbing elements be enacted.

At the same time, he will ask for larger appropriations, which were denied in the past.

One of the arrested men has an alibi for the day of the shooting, but the other two do not.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged with robbery and murder.

But the evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti is thin.

The car in the garage doesn't match the witness's description.

It's an Oldsmobile, not a Buick.

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.

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.

But their protests don't stop prosecutors from indicting Sacco and Vanzetti for murder after a three-month investigation.

Sam Leibowitz went to Alabama for the Scottsboro case and described jurors looking like frogs on a log with their thin lips stained with tobacco juice.

Felix Frankfurter attacked the jury and the judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

And Belli then added, with far more vitriol than anything he said about Dallas, Darrow, Leibowitz, Frankfurter, those are not the references of a man giving a sober account of what happened.

Those are the references of a man arguing that history will side with him.