USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. On the afternoon of April 15, 1920, payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli were shot to death and robbed of over $15, 000 in cash.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair just after midnight on August 23, 1927. Investigations in the aftermath of the executions continued throughout the 1930s and ‘40s. The publication of the men’s letters, containing eloquent professions of innocence, intensified belief in their wrongful execution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main physical evidence connecting Sacco and Vanzetti to the crime was the guns in their possession when they were arrested. The prosecutors claimed that Vanzetti’s gun belonged to one of the victims and that Vanzetti had stolen it from him.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charged with the crime of murder on May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put on trial May 21, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why were Sacco and Vanzetti most likely convicted? They were most likely to be convicted for being Italian immigrants and anarchists. How did the Ku Klux Klan respond to this fear? They responded with violence; Targeting blacks, Jews, union leaders, and Roman Catholics.