[ProgressingAmerica]

I thought many of you would like to have this, so I made it easier for you to find.

This is the direct PDF download: download

[ProgressingAmerica]

For those of you on my Ping list.....

I only recently found out that Glenn Beck was talking about Upton Sinclair's letter and its ramification for his "Boston".

If you hear Glenn talking about other historical items, please let me know. I'll do my best to find it, and shoot a flare up into the air so that these items can be easily referenced.(Like I did with Chamberlain's letter to the Hitler Youth, here)

[JoeDetweiler]

Sacco and Vanzetti were part of an Anarchist gang led by Mike Boda (Mario Buda.) Here is a part of the story that often gets left out...

“The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds....

... flyers found in a post office box in the Wall Street area just before the explosion. Printed in red ink on white paper, they said: “Remember, we will not tolerate any longer. Free the political prisoners, or it will be sure death for all of you....”

...One Galleanist in particular, Mario Buda (1884–1963), an associate of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the owner of a car which led to the arrest of the latter for a separate robbery and murder, is alleged by some historians, including Paul Avrich, to be the man most likely to have planted the bomb. Avrich and other historians theorize that Buda acted in revenge for the arrest and indictment of his fellow Galleanists, Sacco and Vanzetti.Buda’s involvement as the Wall Street bombmaker was confirmed by statements made by his nephew Frank Maffi and fellow anarchist Charles Poggi, who interviewed Buda in Savignano, Italy, in 1955...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

Admittedly, there was never a conviction in this case, but I think it’s a mistake to ignore it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Bump.

[miss marmelstein]

Make sure you read all of Paul Avrich’s oral history on the anarchist movement. He broke the omertà around S&V. Vanzetti offed a priest, I believe, on his way to Mexico to avoid the service during WWI (he wasn’t even eligible for that). Avrich’s books are amazing to anyone who follows the anarchist movement - as I do.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this. Nice work.

[Sherman Logan]

I decided that I would write the story on the basis of telling exactly what I knew. I would portray all sides, and show all the different groups and individuals telling what they knew and what they believed. I would take my stand on the point that the men had not been proved guilty, and that their trial had not been fair.

Haven't read this book, but if he actually lived up to this proclaimed intention, I think he did exactly right.

Whether they got a perfectly fair trial is of course an entirely different question of whether they were objectively guilty of the crime with which they were charged or others.

[Capt. Tom]

The Governor steps into the Sacco Vanzetti case -

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me as Supreme Executive Magistrate by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and by all other authority vested in me, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, August 23, 1977, "NICOLA SACCO AND BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI MEMORIAL DAY"; .......

Since I had spent time in the area of the crime scene on Pearl St Braintree , I decided to find out about the details of this case for my own information.

I came to 2 conclusions:

1.They did not get a fair trial.
2. The were guilty as charged. -tom