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April 14, 2021
Nicola Sacco (right) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (third from right, with mustache) head back to jail accompanied by deputy sheriffs.
We may never know who killed paymaster Frederick A. Parmenter and his bodyguard, Allesandro Berardelli. Both worked for the Slater and Morrill Shoe Factory in Braintree, Massachusetts; at about 3:05 p.m. on April 15, 1920, they were ambushed on the job and fatally gunned down, then robbed of $15,776.51 (over $200,000 today).
Two Italian anarchists were put on trial for the crime: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. History has not looked kindly on the proceedings, with many experts, including a future Supreme Court justice, calling their trial unfair. Let’s recap the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti case.