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'''Ferdinando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti''' were two [[revolution]]ary [[terrorist]]s who were [[conviction|convicted]] and [[execution|executed]] in 1927 for a 1920 double [[murder]] carried out during a robbery. The duo became a [[Communist]]<ref>Stephen Koch, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YIoFAQAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals]'' (New York: Enigma Books, rev. ed. 2004) ISBN 1929631200, pp. 31-37</ref> ''cause célèbre''.<ref>John F. Neville, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=PXn7LbZRK2IC Twentieth-Century Cause Celebre: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the Press, 1920-1927]'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0275977838 p. 101</ref> For decades, [[liberal]]s argued that they had been wrongly convicted, their [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm leading champion] [[Harvard Law School]] Professor [[Felix Frankfurter]],<ref>Felix Frankfurter, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=GiV9cR6277UC The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen]'' (Buffalo: Wm. S. Hein & Co., 2003) ISBN 157588805X</ref> a future [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] Justice. One of Frankfurter's students, future [[State Department]] official [[Noel Field]], would later write, "The shock of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions drove me leftward": he would become a [[USSR|Soviet]] intelligence source;<ref>[http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=8544389&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5&j=1 Noel Haviland Field], Records of the Security Service, The National Archives (United Kingdom)</ref> another of Frankfurter's students, [[Alger Hiss]], would later [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278 emulate] Sacco and Vanzetti.

'''Ferdinando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti''' were two [[revolution]]ary [[terrorist]]s who were [[conviction|convicted]] and [[execution|executed]] in 1927 for a 1920 double [[murder]] carried out during a robbery. The duo became a [[Communist]]<ref>Stephen Koch, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YIoFAQAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals]'' (New York: Enigma Books, rev. ed. 2004) ISBN 1929631200, pp. 31-37</ref> ''cause célèbre''.<ref>John F. Neville, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=PXn7LbZRK2IC Twentieth-Century Cause Celebre: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the Press, 1920-1927]'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0275977838 p. 101</ref> For decades, [[liberal]]s argued that they had been wrongly convicted, their [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm leading champion] [[Harvard Law School]] Professor [[Felix Frankfurter]],<ref>Felix Frankfurter, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=GiV9cR6277UC The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen]'' (Buffalo: Wm. S. Hein & Co., 2003) ISBN 157588805X</ref> a future [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] Justice. One of Frankfurter's students, future [[State Department]] official [[Noel Field]], would later write, "The shock of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions drove me leftward": he would become a [[USSR|Soviet]] intelligence source;<ref>[http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=8544389&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5&j=1 Noel Haviland Field], Records of the Security Service, The National Archives (United Kingdom)</ref> another of Frankfurter's students, [[Alger Hiss]], would later [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278 emulate] Sacco and Vanzetti.

The case became fodder for polemical works: [[Socialist]]<ref>"To John M. Gillette," September 15, 1912, in Maxwell Anderson (Laurence G. Avery, Ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=iINNqp6FxU0C Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958]'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) ISBN 0807849405, p. 3</ref> playwright [[Maxwell Anderson]] had his greatest success with the 1935 play ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6P8jBxOKYacC Winterset]'', a tragedy in verse loosely based on the case, which won him both commercial success and the Critics’ Circle Award. In the play, the accused is innocent, and the judge is described as "crazy as a bedbug." Socialist novelist [[Upton Sinclair]] likewise wrote a novel, ''Boston'', based upon the case, in which he suggested that the convicted terrorists had been railroaded.<ref>E.g.: "[O]f the five identification witnesses upon whom the case against Sacco rested, one was a many times arrested crook, one a hysterical prostitute, one a halfwit, one a disoriented fantasist, and one a feeble victim of police pressure." Upton Sinclair, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YL2wAAAAIAAJ Boston: A Novel]'' (A. & C. Boni, 1928), p. 411</ref> But in 2005, a 1929 letter from Sinclair surfaced, in which he confided that the [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html well-known socialist] Fred Moore, radical attorney for [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE&legacy=true the terrorist]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of 95 Wobbies (including Haywood) at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, killing four. Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005) ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[International Workers of the World]]<ref>[http://editorsnotes.org/projects/emma/topics/243/ Moore, Fred H., 1882-1933], The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California Berkeley</ref> who represented Sacco and Vanzetti, told Sinclair that “the men were guilty," and confessed "in every detail how he had framed a set of alibis for them."<ref>Jean O. Pasco, "[http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/24/local/me-sinclair24 Sinclair Letter Turns Out to Be Another Expose]," ''Los Angeles Times'', December 24, 2005. Cf. "[http://web.archive.org/web/20090226152309/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/01/28/uptonsinclair-boston.html Novelist's Book about Murder Trial Called into Question]," Canadian Broadcasting Company, January 28, 2006 (Archive); cf. Doug Linder (2001), [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/s&vaccount.html The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti], Famous Trials (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law); Richard Newby, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6j kRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 634</ref> As he revealed in another letter, from 1927, Sinclair feared for his life if he told the truth: "My wife is absolutely certain that if I tell what I believe, I will be called a traitor to the movement and may not live to finish the book."<ref>Richard Newby, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6jkRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 481</ref> In the end, Sinclair decided that there was more money in lying than telling the truth: "It is much better copy as a naive defense of Sacco and Vanzetti because this is what all my foreign readers expect, and they are 90% of my public."<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200601061019.asp The Clay Feet of Liberal Saints], ''National Review'', January 06, 2006. Cf. Ann Coulter, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=k_3EeVj2_IUC Godless: The Church of Liberalism]'' (Random House Digital, Inc., 2007), ISBN 1400054214, p. 52</ref> Even the Communist<ref>"I am for socialism," wrote Baldwin. "Communism is the goal." (Affidavit of Roger N. Baldwin, December 31, 1938, [https://archive.org/download/investigationofu193804unit/investigationofu193804unit.pdf Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States]. Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th-78th Congress, pp. 3081-3082. Cf. "Baldwin, 'From the Harvard Classbook,'" [June 1935, vol. 763], reprinted in ''Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union'' [New York: Columbia University Press, 2000], p. 259; Peggy Lamson, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=iC6FAAAAMAAJ Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union: a portrait]'' [Houghton Mifflin, 1976], p. 192)</ref> [[Roger Baldwin]], founder of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (which [https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Civil-Liberties-Union provided counsel] for the two men), admitted "there was no possible doubt of the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti."<ref>Richard Newby, [http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6j kRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 635</ref>

The case became fodder for polemical works: [[Socialist]]<ref>"To John M. Gillette," September 15, 1912, in Maxwell Anderson (Laurence G. Avery, Ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=iINNqp6FxU0C Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958]'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) ISBN 0807849405, p. 3</ref> playwright [[Maxwell Anderson]] had his greatest success with the 1935 play ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6P8jBxOKYacC Winterset]'', a tragedy in verse loosely based on the case, which won him the Critics’ Circle Award. In the play, the accused is innocent, and the judge is described as "crazy as a bedbug." Socialist novelist [[Upton Sinclair]] likewise wrote a novel, ''Boston'', based upon the case, in which he suggested that the convicted terrorists had been railroaded.<ref>E.g.: "[O]f the five identification witnesses upon whom the case against Sacco rested, one was a many times arrested crook, one a hysterical prostitute, one a halfwit, one a disoriented fantasist, and one a feeble victim of police pressure." Upton Sinclair, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YL2wAAAAIAAJ Boston: A Novel]'' (A. & C. Boni, 1928), p. 411</ref> But in 2005, a 1929 letter from Sinclair surfaced, in which he confided that the [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html well-known socialist] Fred Moore, radical attorney for [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE&legacy=true the terrorist]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of 95 Wobbies (including Haywood) at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, killing four. Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005) ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[International Workers of the World]]<ref>[http://editorsnotes.org/projects/emma/topics/243/ Moore, Fred H., 1882-1933], The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California Berkeley</ref> who represented Sacco and Vanzetti, told Sinclair that “the men were guilty," and confessed "in every detail how he had framed a set of alibis for them."<ref>Jean O. Pasco, "[http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/24/local/me-sinclair24 Sinclair Letter Turns Out to Be Another Expose]," ''Los Angeles Times'', December 24, 2005. Cf. "[http://web.archive.org/web/20090226152309/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/01/28/uptonsinclair-boston.html Novelist's Book about Murder Trial Called into Question]," Canadian Broadcasting Company, January 28, 2006 (Archive); cf. Doug Linder (2001), [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/s&vaccount.html The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti], Famous Trials (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law); Richard Newby, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6j kRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 634</ref> As he revealed in another letter, from 1927, Sinclair feared for his life if he told the truth: "My wife is absolutely certain that if I tell what I believe, I will be called a traitor to the movement and may not live to finish the book."<ref>Richard Newby, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6jkRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 481</ref> In the end, Sinclair decided that there was more money in lying than telling the truth: "It is much better copy as a naive defense of Sacco and Vanzetti because this is what all my foreign readers expect, and they are 90% of my public."<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200601061019.asp The Clay Feet of Liberal Saints], ''National Review'', January 06, 2006. Cf. Ann Coulter, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=k_3EeVj2_IUC Godless: The Church of Liberalism]'' (Random House Digital, Inc., 2007), ISBN 1400054214, p. 52</ref> Even the Communist<ref>"I am for socialism," wrote Baldwin. "Communism is the goal." (Affidavit of Roger N. Baldwin, December 31, 1938, [https://archive.org/download/investigationofu193804unit/investigationofu193804unit.pdf Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States]. Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th-78th Congress, pp. 3081-3082. Cf. "Baldwin, 'From the Harvard Classbook,'" [June 1935, vol. 763], reprinted in ''Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union'' [New York: Columbia University Press, 2000], p. 259; Peggy Lamson, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=iC6FAAAAMAAJ Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union: a portrait]'' [Houghton Mifflin, 1976], p. 192)</ref> [[Roger Baldwin]], founder of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (which [https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Civil-Liberties-Union provided counsel] for the two men), admitted "there was no possible doubt of the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti."<ref>Richard Newby, [http://books.google.com/books?id=jxPC7B6j kRQC Kill now, talk forever: debating Sacco and Vanzetti]'' (AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420843931, p. 635</ref>

The case was finally closed in 1983 when ballistics tests performed (by the renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee, Director and Chief Criminalist of the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory; Anthony L. Paul, Police Firearms Unit Laboratory Manager and Senior Firearms Examiner, Philadelphia Police Department; and Marshall K. Robinson, Senior Firearms Examiner for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Police Department) under the auspices of the Select Committee on Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrated conclusively that six cartridges taken from Sacco when he was arrested "were made on the same machine that made the two ... fired cartridge cases that were recovered from the crime scene.”<ref>James E. Starrs, "[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3711839 Once More Unto the Breech: The Firearms Evidence in the Sacco and Vanzetti Case Revisited]," ''AFTE Journal'', Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 1985), p. 28. Cf. Richard Newby, [http://hnn.us/articles/4527.html Sacco & Vanzetti: Were They Really Innocent?], History News Network (George Mason University), April 19, 2004</ref>

The case was finally closed in 1983 when ballistics tests performed (by the renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee, Director and Chief Criminalist of the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory; Anthony L. Paul, Police Firearms Unit Laboratory Manager and Senior Firearms Examiner, Philadelphia Police Department; and Marshall K. Robinson, Senior Firearms Examiner for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Police Department) under the auspices of the Select Committee on Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrated conclusively that six cartridges taken from Sacco when he was arrested "were made on the same machine that made the two ... fired cartridge cases that were recovered from the crime scene.”<ref>James E. Starrs, "[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3711839 Once More Unto the Breech: The Firearms Evidence in the Sacco and Vanzetti Case Revisited]," ''AFTE Journal'', Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 1985), p. 28. Cf. Richard Newby, [http://hnn.us/articles/4527.html Sacco & Vanzetti: Were They Really Innocent?], History News Network (George Mason University), April 19, 2004</ref>