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[[Image:Sacvan.jpg|right|thumb|Venzetti(left) and Sacco(right)]]

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'''Sacco and Vanzetti''' were two [[revolution|revolutionary]] [[terrorist|terrorists]] 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.<ref>One of his students, future [[State Department]] official [[Noel Field]], would later write, "The shock of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions drove me leftward": he would become a [[#refFieldUK|Soviet intelligence source]]; another of Frankfurter's students, [[Alger Hiss]], would later [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278 emulate] Sacco and Vanzetti.</ref> [[Socialist]] novelist [[Upton Sinclair]] wrote a novel, ''Boston'', based upon the case, in which he presented the defendants as innocent. But in 2005, a 1929 letter from Sinclair surfaced, in which he confessed that Fred Moore, lawyer for the two men, “told me that the men were guilty, and he told me in every detail how he had framed a set of alibis for them."<ref>"[http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/01/28/uptonsinclair-boston.html Novelist's Book about Murder Trial Called into Question],"

'''Sacco and Vanzetti''' were two [[revolution|revolutionary]] [[terrorist|terrorists]] 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.<ref>One of his students, future [[State Department]] official [[Noel Field]], would later write, "The shock of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions drove me leftward": he would become a [[#refFieldUK|Soviet intelligence source]]; another of Frankfurter's students, [[Alger Hiss]], would later [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278 emulate] Sacco and Vanzetti.</ref> [[Socialist]] novelist [[Upton Sinclair]] wrote a novel, ''Boston'', based upon the case, in which he presented the defendants as innocent. But in 2005, a 1929 letter from Sinclair surfaced, in which he confessed that Fred Moore, lawyer for the two men, “told me that the men were guilty, and he told me in every detail how he had framed a set of alibis for them."<ref>"[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; 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)</ref> But, as he revealed in another letter, from 1927, he 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>Jack Cashill, [http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=25966 Mythologizing Murder], FrontPageMagazine.com, April 10, 2007</ref> In the end, he decided that a lie would sell better than 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</ref> New evidence suggests that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty<ref>Richard Newby, [http://hnn.us/articles/4527.html Sacco & Vanzetti: Were They Really Innocent?],History News Network (George Mason University), April 19, 2004</ref>

Canadian Broadcasting Company, January 28, 2006; 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)</ref> But, as he revealed in another letter, from 1927, he 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>Jack Cashill, [http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=25966 Mythologizing Murder], FrontPageMagazine.com, April 10, 2007</ref> In the end, he decided that a lie would sell better than 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</ref> New evidence suggests that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty<ref>Richard Newby, [http://hnn.us/articles/4527.html Sacco & Vanzetti: Were They Really Innocent?],History News Network (George Mason University), April 19, 2004</ref>