Box 5

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series consists of research done by Judge Clarence Cheney Smith concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti case. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The trial garnered national attention, and many prominent lawyers and professors took a public position that the pair had received an unfair trial amid...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series consists of research done by Judge Clarence Cheney Smith concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti case. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The trial garnered national attention, and many prominent lawyers and professors took a public position that the pair had received an unfair trial amid...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series consists of research done by Judge Clarence Cheney Smith concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti case. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The trial garnered national attention, and many prominent lawyers and professors took a public position that the pair had received an unfair trial amid...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series consists of research done by Judge Clarence Cheney Smith concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti case. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The trial garnered national attention, and many prominent lawyers and professors took a public position that the pair had received an unfair trial amid...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series consists of research done by Judge Clarence Cheney Smith concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti case. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The trial garnered national attention, and many prominent lawyers and professors took a public position that the pair had received an unfair trial amid...