Nicola Sacco Tshirts?
My next screenprinting project, if anyone wants one, just get a shirt to me:
If you do not know the reference:
The man is Nicola Sacco. Most often mentioned with Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco was a worker in a shoe factory, and Vanzetti was a fish peddler. In 1920, Both were arrested for the murders of Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli, two guards who were killed by, who eyewitnesses say, two Italians and one with a mustache. The two guards were shot and murdered while carrying boxes holding the $15,000 payroll for a shoe factory. When Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested, both were carrying guns and Sacco's matched the caliber of the bullets used to shoot Paramenter and Berardelli.
In 1921, after a trial with vague evidence and extreme bias towards their anarchist beliefs, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death by extreme rightist, Judge Webster Thayer. After the trial, Thayer was recorded saying to a friend, "Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards the other day?" After their deaths, supporters placed a sign reading Judge Thayer's evil quote in front of Sacco and Vanzetti's coffins.
It wasn't until 1927 that Sacco and Vanzetti were killed, however in 1925, a man named Celestino Madeiros, a Portuguese immigrant, confessed to being a member of the gang that killed Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. He also named the four other men, Joe, Fred, Pasquale and Mike Morelli, who had taken part in the robbery. The Morelli brothers were well-known criminals who had carried out similar robberies in area of Massachusetts. However, the authorities refused to investigate the confession made by Madeiros.
On August 23, 1927, city lights dimmed as Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electricuted on the chair.
Fifty years later, on 23rd August, 1977, Michael Dukakis, the Governor of Massachusetts, issued a proclamation, effectively absolving the two men of the crime.
Nicola Sacco's last words were these:
"Long live anarchy!"
If you do not know the reference:
The man is Nicola Sacco. Most often mentioned with Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco was a worker in a shoe factory, and Vanzetti was a fish peddler. In 1920, Both were arrested for the murders of Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli, two guards who were killed by, who eyewitnesses say, two Italians and one with a mustache. The two guards were shot and murdered while carrying boxes holding the $15,000 payroll for a shoe factory. When Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested, both were carrying guns and Sacco's matched the caliber of the bullets used to shoot Paramenter and Berardelli.
In 1921, after a trial with vague evidence and extreme bias towards their anarchist beliefs, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death by extreme rightist, Judge Webster Thayer. After the trial, Thayer was recorded saying to a friend, "Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards the other day?" After their deaths, supporters placed a sign reading Judge Thayer's evil quote in front of Sacco and Vanzetti's coffins.
It wasn't until 1927 that Sacco and Vanzetti were killed, however in 1925, a man named Celestino Madeiros, a Portuguese immigrant, confessed to being a member of the gang that killed Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. He also named the four other men, Joe, Fred, Pasquale and Mike Morelli, who had taken part in the robbery. The Morelli brothers were well-known criminals who had carried out similar robberies in area of Massachusetts. However, the authorities refused to investigate the confession made by Madeiros.
On August 23, 1927, city lights dimmed as Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electricuted on the chair.
Fifty years later, on 23rd August, 1977, Michael Dukakis, the Governor of Massachusetts, issued a proclamation, effectively absolving the two men of the crime.
Nicola Sacco's last words were these:
"Long live anarchy!"