Sacco and Vanzetti Committee
Seven years of appeals, and the rooms where they ended.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
Three men died in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison just after midnight on the twenty-third of August, 1927. The first was Celestino Medeiros. He was there for the murder of a bank cashier. He had also confessed to the crime the next two men were dying for. They were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists arrested in 1920 over a payroll robbery and two murders in South Braintree.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
256 Hanover Street, North End, about five minutes on foot from Haymarket station. A private building, seen from the street only. A plaque has been recorded here.
Sources
- New York Times, Sacco and Vanzetti Put to Death Early This Morning (23 August 1927), reprinted by libcom
- The Boston Book, Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee
- Read the Plaque, Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee
- Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library, Aldino Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee Records
- When and Where in Boston, Sacco and Vanzetti funeral is held
- Robert Knox, The Garden of History: What Happened to the Ashes? (2016)
- Wikipedia, Sacco and Vanzetti
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