Sacco and Vanzetti: 'Case of the Century' - Stephen Kinney

How did the trial for a payroll robbery gone wrong become the "case of the century”? Immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were famously convicted and executed for the crime, but questions persist, even a hundred years later. Were the anarchists given a fair trial? Or did a climate of fear make these immigrants with radical politics lead to a decision based on prejudice? Dr. Stephen Kinney, Museum Director of the Commonwealth Museum, discusses the case and why it remains a critical piece of our history.
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Education Resources:
Commonwealth Museum
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“The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti”, Podcasts - Listen to Massachusetts History, Commonwealth Museum
www.sec.state.ma.us/mus/podca...
The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti: Justice on Trial, exhibit at the John Adams Courthouse
www.mass.gov/law-library/the-...
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, Ben Shahn painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art
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Sacco and Vanzetti: In the Courtroom Cage, 1931-32, Ben Shahn painting at Princeton University Art Museum
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“Ben Shahn”, Art and Artists, Museum of Modern Art
www.moma.org/artists/5366?=un...
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, video
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Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti, Zinn Education Project Teaching People’s History
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“Hurricane”, song by Bob Dylan
www.bobdylan.com/songs/hurricane/
Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I lesson plan by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Art
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“Sacco and Vanzetti: Were Two Innocent Men Executed?” Student activity, Bill of Rights in Action newsletter from the Constitutional Rights Foundation (Summer 2007, Volume 23, No.2)
www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-right...
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[@virginiasoskin9082]

Excellent presentation! I loved to see all the old photos and newspaper clippings. Well done.

[@clairenault7618]

My family grew up on Cherry St. where Vanzetti lived. I would like to add a little info to the story. How do I do that?

[@kathleendaquanno2541]

I would love to hear your addition to the story,

[@pancakes3250]

I liked it. Will those two get exonerated, or decision reverse due to unfair trial?

[@cjaquilino]

9:07 Lost a lot of credibility right here.

[@pauliemouse]

It's Ben Shahn, not Brian Shahn.

[@zampieritto]

No American authority apologised those two gents ?

[@tamerlano2420]

Usa governments never apoligised or recognized innocence for any innocent person who was killed with death penalty ( there are many of them, Sacco and Vanzetti were not the only ones)

[@ShailendraSINGH-jk2ev]

united states of ass wholes

[@barrydoyle7070]

Hi. I am 84 and my mother was certain of their innocence. The Russians launched two aircraft carriers named after them

[@nothingelse1520]

The ballistics matched their gun tho