Sacco-Vanzetti Flashcards
What crime was committed in the Sacco-Vanzetti case?
- Masachusetts
- April 1920
- Two Italian Anarchists
- Commited and armed robbery in a shoe factory, stealing over $15,000 and in the process murdering a paymaster and their guard.
How much did Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly steal?
$15,000
What was the evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti and showed them as guilty?
❖The bullet fired in the robbery matched Sacco’s gun.
❖Vanzetti had a previous conviction for armed robbery.
❖Both men were anarchists and had avoided military service.
❖There were 61 eye-witnesses who put them at the scene of the crime.
How many eye-witnesses claimed they saw Sacco and Vanzetti at the scene of the crime?
61
How many eye-witnesses claimed that Sacco and Vanzetti had been elsewhere?
107 eye-witnesses said that they had been elsewhere at the time of the crime.
What was the verdict in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial?
Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty on 14th July 1921, and sentenced to death. They were eventually executed in 1927.
Why was Judge Thayer biased, ensuring the trial was unfair? What is her famous quote?
- Well-known anti-anarchist
- Vanzetti ‘may not actually have committed the crime but he is morally to blame because he is our enemy’
How many countries protested against the verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti?
60
What terrorism occured due to the verdict from the Sacco-Vanzetti trial?
In 1921 a mail-bomb was sent to the American Embassy in Paris in protest
The Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Committee raised over _________ to help them.
$300,000
