99 years ago - In memory of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Red leaves announcing new roses to bloom. Photo taken by me this morning, in memory of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, who were unjustly charged with armed robbery and murder and sentenced to death after a long, biased and irregular trial. Sacco and Vanzetti spent seven years imprisoned in Charlestwon prison in Boston and, despite many worldwide popular manifestations demanding their release, they were sent on the electric chair on 23rd August 1927.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right), during the trial.
Their last letters:
Nicola Sacco's farewell letters to his anarchists fellows and his son Dante.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti's letter to Dante Sacco, who was just a child at the time of his father's imprisonment and death.
I fixed the headline of the "Daily News" below.
Fifty years later, in 1977, Sacco and Vanzetti were rehabilitated by Micheal Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts.
Below: memorial stone in Villafalletto, the village near Cuneo in Piedmont (North-West Italy), where Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on 11 June 1888. His friend Nicola Sacco was born in Torremaggiore, near Foggia, in Apulia (South-East taly), on 22 April 1891.
Ennio Morricone composed the soundtrack of Giuliano Montaldo's film Sacco e Vanzetti (1971), whose song Here's to You, written and sung by Joan Baez as a tribute to Nicola and Bart, has become an anthem for all the people who struggle for social justice and are persecuted by the fierce defenders of the political status quo.
From the film's soundtrack composed by Morricone, the beautiful Speranze di Libertà (Hopes of Freedom).
Vera da Pozzo
23rd August MMXXVI
Article and first photo by me. Other pictures from various web sources.
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