Saccho and Vanzetti
ICHARD SINGER, in a recent broadcast by 4ZB of his " Famous Trials," resurrected the notorious case of Saccho and Vanzetti. This trial, which took place within recent memory, has yet fallen rapidly into the limbo of "causes célébres," which includes the Lindberg kidnapping and the Reichstag fire. We remember the names of the accused, and have a faint recollection of the
®tir the case caused at the time, but it requires a speaker like Richard Singer to bring the matter before us in true perspective. Sancho and Vanzetti, arrested for murder, were condemned mainly be- ’ cause of their suspicious behaviour when picked up; in spite of appeals, public indignation, and the lack of concrete proof against them, they were subsequently executed. Their suspicious behaviour was due, they confessed, to the fact that they were Communists, and in view of the public vindictiveness against anything remotely labelled in America as "Red," they had lied in order not to draw attention to their political activity. When the furore had died away it was practically certain that, whoever the murderers were, they were not Saccho and Vanzetti. However, by the time the travesty of justice and mistaken sentence were publicly admitted, it was too late. Two martyrs had been added to the long list of victims of mass hysteria.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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219Saccho and Vanzetti New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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