RADICALS: Sacco & Vanzetti

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The World War lasted four years and was duly chronicled as an international episode. The case of Sacco & Vanzetti is seven years old and is still an international episode. It is a tale filled with blood and tears, with Reds and bigwigs, with bombs and laws. . . . April 15, 1920. A paymaster and a guard were shot to death on the streets of South Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South...

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