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The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals) A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
By Brian Jackson
Copyright 1981
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced evidence, executed in 1927. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths, the Commonwealth of... Read more
Prelude; Acknowledgements; Part I: A winter’s tale 1. Christmas Eve 1919 2. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti 3. A crime punishable by death 4. Cross-examination 5. Eels and the electric chair 6. In Death Row; Interlude: A long shadow Part II: Half a Century Later 7. In State House 8. Little secrets in little boxes 9. ‘There seemed to be no doubt at all’ 10. ‘Have you agreed upon your verdict?’ 11. Culture or anarchy 12. ‘The storming of heaven’
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Brian Jackson
