Letter

By: Nicola Sacco

Date: August 18, 1927

Source: Sacco, Nicola. "The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti." Available online at Court TV Online. The Greatest Trials of All Time. http://www.courttv.com/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti/sacco_... ; website home page: http://www.courttv.com/ (accessed January 28, 2003).

About the Author: Nicola Sacco (1891–1927) emigrated from southern Italy to Massachusetts in 1908. In 1912, he married an Italian woman, Rosina, and a year later their son, Dante, was born. Politically, Sacco was an active member of a radical Italian anarchist group that aligned itself with violent labor unionists and antiwar propagandists. In 1920, amid the hysteria of the "Red Scare," Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were found guilty of...