Is This the Truth about Sacco and Vanzetti?

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A hard-hitting Boston lawyer, Mr. Robert H. Montgomery, has made a new study of the world-famous case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the two Italian anarchists convicted in July 1921 of a payroll murder and executed in Boston on August 22, 1927.1 There was a doubt about their guilt, a suspicion that they were convicted because of their radical opinions. This gave rise, while they lived, to a widespread demand for a new trial, a modest enough demand which, when repeatedly denied, spread like a prairie fire over the whole planet. Nothing comparable to that agitation in extent or intensity had ever been seen before.

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reasons why he thinks here, at last, is the answer

A hard-hitting Boston lawyer, Mr. Robert H. Montgomery, has made a new study of the world-famous case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the two Italian anarchists convicted in July 1921 of a payroll murder and executed in Boston on August 22, 1927.1 There was a doubt about their guilt, a suspicion that they were convicted because of their radical opinions. This gave rise, while they lived, to a widespread demand for a new trial, a modest enough demand which, when repeatedly denied, spread like a prairie fire over the whole planet. Nothing comparable to that agitation in extent or intensity had ever been seen before.