Kill Now, Talk Forever: Debating Sacco and Vanzetti

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Did Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti murder two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts on April 15, 1920? At their joint trial, alibi witnesses testified Vanzetti was selling fish that day in North Plymouth. Other alibi witnesses testified that they saw Sacco in Boston that day. What is the truth? Did the Dedham jury--12 men of New England culture--have evidence for conviction? Or did their guilty verdict in 1921 stem from a deeply rooted bias against these two Italian immigrants who militantly pursued their anarchist-communist goals? Were Saco and Vanzetti innocent men? Did Governor Fuller refuse to stop their execution in 1927 because Massachusetts wanted to strike back at radical aliens who set off bombs in U.S. cities in the Red Scare of 1919? Why did so many intellectuals believe the men innocent? Answers to these questions are in the transcripts of the trial. This handbook reprints all critical testimony from the trial as well as major items from the 80-year debate. 52 questions help you sort out the experts--those who are right and those who are wrong on the trial verdict. Kill Now, Talk Forever is cited in the 5th edition of AFTER THE FACT: THE ART OF HISTORICAL DETECTION (2005), by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton.
 

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FOREWORD
xxiii
A NOTE TO THE NEXT GENERATION
xxviii
INTRODUCTION
xxix
CHRONOLOGY
xxxix
1 SURVEYOR PATHOLOGIST AGENT PAYMISTRESS
3
2 THE PLYMOUTH TRAIN
15
3 PRECRIME WITNESSES
19
4 WITNESSES AT GROUND LEVEL
31
24 VANZETTIS ALIBI WITNESSES
257
25 TESTIMONY OF BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI
281
26 VANZETTIS NEW YORK TRIP
309
27 THE KELLEYS
313
28 SACCOS ALIBI WITNESSES
319
29 TESTIMONY OF NICOLA SACCO
345
30 FINAL WITNESSES
391
31 REBUTTAL
399

5 WITNESSES AT FACTORY WINDOWS
47
6 THE ESCAPING BANDIT CAR
59
7 THE ABANDONED BUICK AND STOLEN PLATES
69
8 THE JOHNSON HOUSE AND MIKE BODA
73
9 ARREST ON THE STREETCAR
95
10 THE LORING CAP AND BERARDELLIS GUN
109
11 POLICE CHIEF MICHAEL STEWART
121
12 SUPERINTENDENTS KELLEY AND FRAHER
127
13 THE COMMONWEALTHS BALLISTICS EXPERTS
135
14 CONCLUSION OF COMMONWEALTH CASE
153
15 OPENING STATEMENT AND MIT PROFESSOR
169
16 LOLA ANDREWS IMPEACHED
175
17 EYEWITNESSES ON PEARL STREET
181
18 LOUIS PELSER IMPEACHED
191
19 THE ESCAPING BANDIT CAR AGAIN
203
20 LEVANGIE IMPEACHED
221
21 DEFENSES BALLISTICS EXPERTS
225
22 THE PLYMOUTH TRAIN AGAIN
239
23 VANZETTIS H R REVOLVER
245
32 ATWATER TELLS HIS DEDHAM TRIAL STORY
409
33 REPLY TO REBUTTAL
410
34 PALMERS LETTER TO KATZMANN
413
35 CLOSING ARGUMENTS
414
36 CHARGE TO THE JURY
442
37 THE VERDICT
453
38 FIRE IN DEXTER MAINE
456
40 FIRST GENERATION CRITICS
458
FRANKFURTERS OXFORD LETTER TO BORCHARD
506
41 SECOND GENERATION CRITICS
507
42 THIRD GENERATION CRITICS
557
PROLEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF RANNEY
594
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION DEBATE AND WRITING
595
LUMINARIES 1989 2001
600
52 RESEARCH TOPICS
601
ADDENDA
636
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
638
INDEX
659
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Richard Newby was born on 15 June 1924 in Bridgeton, Indiana. He grew up in Ridge Farm, Illinois He served on the USS Bennington in WW II. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English in 1950 and 1953 from Southern Illinois University and his Ph. D. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1970. After Newby joined the Illinois State University faculty in 1958, he developed a keener understanding of people during his 13-year stint, 1976-1989, as teacher of creative writing. His work in judging short stories by ISU students proved to be excellent training for the warring Sacco and Vanzetti arena. On 14 June 1988, Newby told the Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica that Britannica must revise its entry on Sacco and Vanzetti because the appended bibliography was biased. On November 2, 1990, Britannica''s General Editor Robert McHenry told Newby that the entry on Sacco and Vanzetti and the appended bibliography were revised in April 1990; and he assured Newby these revisions would be in Britannica''s 1991 printing. In 1990, Newby began reading widely on the Sacco and Vanzetti case. In April 1993 he bought Paul P. Appel''s six volumes on the Plymouth and Dedham trials. He bought twenty additional books on the case. In May 2003, Newby found new evidence on Sacco and Vanzetti in two newspapers: The Eastern Gazette, a weekly published in Dexter, Maine, and the Bangor Daily News. Both newspapers (1914) gave an account of the fire that gutted the grocery store of Frank N. Morgridge in Dexter, Maine, on 1 February 1914. Newby claims this fire, never mentioned in the 1921 Dedham trial, sharpens the debate on Vanzetti''s revolver. To date, Newby has not found a U. S. history textbook that mentions this fire. On 19 April 2004, Newby published "Sacco & Vanzetti: Were They Really Innocent?" at History News Network online (George Mason University). In this article, Newby presents a summary of important events in the Sacco and Vanzetti debate, noting ballistics tests and the relevant Morgridge fire.

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