The Lecture:
This presentation is a one hour slide lecture that chronicles the saga the two immigrant Italian anarchists Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The story begins with the robberies in Bridgewater and Braintree Massachusetts and then the famous trial at Dedham is examined and the seven years of attempts to get a new trial are recounted. Lastly the worldwide protests and demonstations will be discussed and then the finally the last days of Sacco and Vanzetti will be highlighted with a vivid description of their sentencing and execution.
The Sacco-Vanzetti Revisited lecture slide presentation contains period photographs of all the major players in the case,the locations of the robberies, the courthouse, massive demonstations, Charlestown State Prison and of the funeral procession of Sacco and Vanzetti. Many of these photographs are rare and are not published anywhere. There are also many photographs of locations as they appear today.
