Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
About Sacco
“But what good is the evidence and what good is the argument? They are determined to kill us regardless of evidence, of law, of decency, of everything. If they give us a delay tonight, it will only mean they will kill us next week. Let us finish tonight. I’m weary of waiting seven years to die, when they know all the time they intend to kill us.”
Sacco, August 22, 1927, fifteen hours before he and Vanzetti were executed.
Sacco was born in Torremaggiore, Italy to a successful olive oil dealer. Some accounts say he had no education after age nine; at trial he claimed he spent seven years in school and dropped out at age 14.
Sacco, August 22, 1927, fifteen hours before he and Vanzetti were executed.
Sacco was born in Torremaggiore, Italy to a successful olive oil dealer. Some accounts say he had no education after age nine; at trial he claimed he spent seven years in school and dropped out at age 14.
About Vanzetti
Vanzetti was born in Villafelletto, Italy to a loving mother and a prosperous farmer who would later open a café. He loved his parents very much. He was a bright man who William Thompson, his lawyer decades later, said that he would have been a Harvard professor if he had ever received an education. But his father took him out of school at the age of thirteen to begin an apprenticeship. His father apprenticed him to the owner of a pastry shop. Vanzetti basically worked twenty four seven, with only three hours off every other Sunday.