Sacco and Vanzetti
On April 15, 1920, Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, his assistant, were transporting the payroll when a man approached, robbed, and shot them in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Stolen was approximately $15,000 and both men died. Only a few months prior, in the nearby town of Braintree, had a similar heist occurred where the attempted robbery had failed. The failed Braintree job had pointed towards an Italian anarchist. The Bridgewater Police Chief felt that these two cases were connected. Later, Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti came to pick up the car of the, then suspected anarchist, Mike Boda, from a local garage (Davidson & Lytle, 2005, p. 262). They were then the primary targets of the investigation thereafter. This case would become an international dilemma of American injustice.
Both men protested against governments with anarchists’ views. They …show more content…
We have immigration at the forefront of today’s presidential debates. We see the effects of terrorism worldwide. I am at a quandary about the Sacco and Vanzetti case. There appears to be things that are still surfacing. I do not believe that the original case was unbiased. It would have been more appropriate that the subsequent appeals and information that surfaced been appropriately evaluated and not left to chance. I do fear whether Sacco and Vanzetti were either guilt or innocence, this case showed injustice. It does leave open the possibility for this case to continue to raise fears and condemnation against America. It did not present itself in an unbiased manner. It also brings to light the issues with the death penalty and carrying out sentences that have an impact on individuals. Edward Carr describes history as “a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, and unending dialogue between the present and the past” (Carr, 1961, p. 35). I see that in this