THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
it involved celebrities
|
|
|
they were both found not guilty when they were clearly guilty
|
|
|
they were found guilty even though there was little evidence
|
|
|
the president pardoned them
|
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The Sacco and Vanzetti case is widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence .
Detailed explanation-4: -Eyewitness Identification Four witnesses (Faulkner, Dolbeare, Levangie, and Reed) placed Vanzetti near the crime scene. Faulkner said he saw Vanzetti get off a train at East Braintree at ten o’clock. Dolbeare claimed to have seen him in the back of a car near South Braintree Square between ten and twelve.