In our own time the growing public awareness of corporate misdeeds and
the exploitation of shareholders and workers are evoking criticisms that
mirror those made by Sacco and Vanzetti.
 
Other Italian Americans felt that it was embarrassing that ANY of our 
ancestry would not be more appreciative of the country that gave them 
opportunity, regardless of  the "oppressive nature" of many of the "haves".  

One of the Highlights of the Conference will be when former Massachusetts 
Governor Michael Dukakis, (and one time US Presidential Candidate) offers his 
thoughts about what led him to issue an Executive proclamation in 1977 that 
declared that Sacco and Vanzetti did not receive a fair trial.

This Prestigious Conference will take place at the Boston Public Library in 
Copley Square on Friday evening October 4 and Saturday, October 5.  

The Conference is sponsored by the Sacco Vanzetti Educational Trust of the 
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts in conjunction with the Boston 
Public Library, the Harvard Law School Library, the Massachusetts State 
Archives, the Supreme Judicial Court Archives, and the University of 
Massachusetts at Boston.

Organizers of the Conference are:
Justice Peter W. Agnes, Jr., Massachussets State Superior Court
Robert D'Attilio, an historian and writer

The following Press Release is Most enlightening!!

For more information see: 
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti - 27.03</A> 
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm
by Felix Frankfurter in The Atlantic (1927)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939–62),  
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Thanks to H-ITAM, Prof. Ben Lawton, Editor

THE SACCO VANZETTI CASE 75 YEARS LATER:
PUBLIC CONFERENCE AND EXHIBIT

CAMBRIDGE August 23, 2002 marks the 75th anniversary of the execution of 
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at the Charlestown State Prison.  

       Their trial and conviction in 1921 in Dedham, Massachusetts for a 
payroll robbery and murder began an odyssey through the labyrinths of the 
Massachusetts legal system that not only transformed the legal landscape in 
Massachusetts, but had a significant influence on 20th century thought and 
literature with regard to the fairness and integrity of the American justice 
system.  Many of the most influential personalities of the twentieth century 
were directly involved in or were affected in some way by this case.

     The case and the ordeal of the two men who served seven years on death
row before their execution had a great impact in realms other than the lega