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08/23/2004 Entry: "Sacco et Vanzetti"

File under: stuff I didn't learn in highschool

On this day in 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a cobbler and a fishmonger, were executed for alledgedly murdering a paymaster and a security guard in broad daylight for a 16,000 dollar payroll seven years before.

Both men were apprehended shortly after the double murder on grounds of looking suspicious. They were both Italian imigrants. Neither had a criminal record, but both carried concealed weapons. In light of sparsely compelling evidence, many intellectuals of the time felt that the two were most likely convicted because of their political beliefs. Both men were pacifists and anarchists.

After their execution, riots broke out in Germany, France and England.

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