may 3, 1921 - "Judicial Lynching" Trial
(May 1921)
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Anti-redism, anti-communism reflected in “judicial lynching”; Nicola Sacco = shoe-factory worker, Bartolomeo Vanzetti = fish peddler; Convicted of murder (1921) of Mass paymaster & guard; Judge & jury prejudiced against Italian, atheist, anarchist, draft dodging defendants; Liberals & radicals around world rallied in defense of “judicial lynching”; Not that much evidence
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