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This account traces the arrests, trials, appeals, forensic testing, and political fallout surrounding the prosecution and execution of two men accused of a payroll robbery and murder in Massachusetts. It reconstructs the investigation and courtroom proceedings, examines ballistic evidence and expert testimony, and follows successive motions, committee reviews, demonstrations, and international reactions that transformed the case into a polarizing social symbol. The narrative weighs competing interpretations of the evidence, details post-conviction inquiries and confessions, and situates the controversy within broader debates about due process, political fear, and the role of public opinion in the administration of justice.

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Title: Tragedy in Dedham

The story of the Sacco-Venzetti case

Author: Francis Russell

Release date: June 13, 2023 [eBook #70970]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: McGraw-Hill, 1962

Credits: Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM

In his Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard,
Lowes Dickinson inquired,
“Is immortality desirable?”
I almost think it is,
if only to get at the truth
of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
FERRIS GREENSLET


NEW YORK / TORONTO / LONDON

TRAGEDY

IN DEDHAM


THE STORY OF THE

SACCO-VANZETTI CASE



Francis Russell



McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.