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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05712.03 |
| From Archive Folder | 4 Broadsides and 1 newsletter related to the Sacco Vanzetti case |
| Title | The official bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee [Vol. I, no. 15 (September 1927)] |
| Date | 01 September 1927 |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Newspaper or newsletter issued after the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The first page has a printed statement denouncing the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and comparing the case to the Salem witchcraft trials. The rest of the newspaper contains articles defending Sacco and Vanzetti and pledging to continue the fight. The last letters of the two men are printed on pages 7-8. Scattered quotations include the Governor of Massachusetts, Alvan T. Fuller, "Thank God it is all over!" and Judge Webster Thayer, "Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards?". |
| Subjects | Anarchism Death Penalty Politics Judiciary Law Immigration and Migration |
| People | Sacco, Nicola (1891-1927) Vanzetti, Bartolomeo (1888-1927) Fuller, Alvan T. (Alvan Tufts) (1878-1958) |
| Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theme | Law |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |