History: USA 1910-1929*

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The Sacco and Vanzetti Case.

The Evidence in their defence

·         Evidence from the 61 prosecution witnesses often disagreed in important details. Some witnesses had changed their stories by the time the trial started

·         107 people confirmed to two men’s alibi. However, many of these were recently arrived Italian immigrants whose English was poor.

·         Several other men confessed to the crime

·         The two men said they lied because they feared that they would be discriminated against because of their support for anarchism

·         Vanzetti refused to take the stand because panicked that his political activities would be the major focus and that he would be found guilty of these rather than the murder.

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