Heywood Brown August 6, 1927 If Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case ... took place during the "Red Scare," when alien radicals were being deported ...

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were suspected communists. They were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the State Prison at Charlestown. They fully understood that they were to die immediately after midnight. Mr. Ehrmann and I, having on their behalf ...

the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti ...

Almost 250 were deported back to their home countries. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were suspected communists. They were ...