*Ø* Blogmanac August 23, 1927 | Sacco and Vanzetti
In America, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchist labor militants, were executed by electric chair for their murder of a factory paymaster and guard. Their guilt in the crimes has been hotly contested ever since.
“Judge Webster Thayer, during the Sacco-Vanzetti episode, was heard to boast while playing golf, ‘Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?’ and the grim little person named Rosa Baron ... who was head of my particular group during the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations in Boston snapped at me when I expressed the wish that we might save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: ‘Alive – what for? They are no earthly good to us alive.’”
Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong
In America, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchist labor militants, were executed by electric chair for their murder of a factory paymaster and guard. Their guilt in the crimes has been hotly contested ever since.
“Judge Webster Thayer, during the Sacco-Vanzetti episode, was heard to boast while playing golf, ‘Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?’ and the grim little person named Rosa Baron ... who was head of my particular group during the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations in Boston snapped at me when I expressed the wish that we might save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: ‘Alive – what for? They are no earthly good to us alive.’”
Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong
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