CHRONOLOGY
| 1919 | |
| June 2. | Attorney General Palmer’s house bombed, Washington, D.C. |
| November 7. | First of the Palmer Red raids. |
| November 23. | Buick belonging to F. J. Murphy stolen in Needham. |
| December 22. | License plates stolen from Hassam’s garage, Needham. |
| December 24. | Bridgewater holdup. |
1920 |
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| January 2. | Red raids in thirty-three cities. |
| January 6-7. | License plates stolen from car, Needham. |
| February 25. | Elia and Salsedo detained in New York by Department of Justice. |
| April 15. | Holdup and murders in South Braintree. |
| April 17. | Discovery of abandoned Murphy Buick. |
| April 20. | Stewart interviews Boda. |
| April 25. | Vanzetti goes to New York. |
| May 5. | Sacco and Vanzetti arrested. |
| May 6. | Orciani arrested. Katzmann questions Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco’s preliminary hearing on South Braintree charge. |
| May 11. | Orciani released. |
| May 18. | Vanzetti’s preliminary hearing on South Braintree charge. |
| June 11. | Vanzetti indicted for Bridgewater holdup. |
| June 22-July 1. | Vanzetti tried for Bridgewater holdup. |
| August 16. | Vanzetti sentenced. |
| August 19. | Fred Moore takes up defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. |
| September 16. | Wall Street bomb explosion. |
1921 |
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| January. | Negotiations between Angelina DeFalco and Defense Committee. |
| May 31-July 14. | Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. |
| October. | Mass demonstrations in Europe against verdict. |
| October 29, November 5. | Motion for new trial argued. |
| November 8. | First supplementary (Ripley) motion filed. |
| December 24. | Thayer denies motion for new trial. |
1922 |
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| May 4. | Second supplementary (Gould-Pelser) motion filed. |
| July 22. | Third supplementary (Goodridge) motion filed. |
| September 11. | Fourth supplementary (Andrews) motion filed. |
1923 |
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| March 8. | William Thompson agrees to argue supplementary motions. |
| April 23. | Sacco committed to Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. |
| April 30. | Fifth supplementary (Hamilton-Proctor) motion filed. |
| September 29. | Sacco discharged from Bridgewater Hospital. |
| October 1-November 8. | Hearings on the supplementary motions. |
1924 |
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| August. | Moore withdraws from case. |
| October 1. | Thayer denies all five supplementary motions. |
1925 |
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| January 2-May 28. | Vanzetti committed to Bridgewater Hospital. |
| June. | International Labor Defense takes up case. |
| November 18. | Madeiros confesses. |
1926 |
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| February. | Renewed demonstrations overseas. |
| May 12. | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejects Thompson’s appeal from Thayer’s denial of the supplementary motions; convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti confirmed. |
| May 15-20. | Madeiros’ second trial. |
| May 22. | Herbert Ehrmann finds trail of Morelli gang. |
| May 26. | Motion based on Madeiros confession filed. |
| June 2. | Samuel Johnson’s house bombed. |
| September 13-17. | Thompson argues Madeiros motion before Thayer. |
| October 23. | Thayer denies Madeiros motion. |
1927 |
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| January 27, 28. | Thompson appeals Thayer’s denial of October 23 to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. |
| March. | Frankfurter’s Atlantic Monthly article. |
| April 5. | Supreme Court affirms Thayer’s denial of October 23. |
| April 9. | Sacco and Vanzetti sentenced. |
| May 4. | Governor Fuller receives Vanzetti’s clemency petition. |
| June 1. | Fuller appoints Advisory (“Lowell”) Committee. |
| June 3. | Calvin Goddard tests shells and bullets. |
| July 27. | Lowell Committee reports findings to Governor Fuller. |
| August 3. | Fuller refuses clemency. |
| August 5. | Bombings in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. |
| August 7. | Lowell Committee report made public. |
| August 15. | Juror McHardy’s house dynamited. |
| August 23. | Madeiros, Sacco, and Vanzetti executed. |
1932 |
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| September 27. | Thayer’s house bombed. |
1959 |
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| April 2. | Massachusetts Legislature Committee hearing on posthumous pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti. |
1961 |
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| October 11. | Re-examination of ballistics evidence by Jac Weller and Frank Jury. |
| BEFORE THE SHOOTING: | |
| 1 | Neal |
| 2 | Tracey |
| 3 | Heron |
| 4 | Novelli |
| 5 | Behrsin |
DURING THE SHOOTING: |
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| 6 | Where Buick waited |
| 7 | Where Berardelli fell |
| 8 | Where Parmenter fell |
| 9 | Bostock |
| 10 | Wade |
| 11 | Nichols |
| 12 | McGlone |
| 13 | Langlois |
| 14 | Pelser |
| 15 | Liscomb |
| 16 | Laborers at excavation |
AFTER THE SHOOTING: |
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| 17 | Kennedy, Hayes |
| 18 | Splaine, Devlin |
| 19 | Carrigan |
| 20 | Pierce, Ferguson |
| 21 | Levangie |
| 22 | Workers on railroad |
| 23 | Gould |
| 24 | Burke |
| 25 | DeBeradinis |
| 26 | Goodridge |
| 27 | Damato |