Sacco and Vanzetti are guilty. (
LA Times link, reg. required/bugmenot) At least according to a letter that recently surfaced in California. The letter saying this was apparently written by none other than famed muckraker
Upton Sinclair, author of
The Jungle.
What's more, after supposedly learning of their guilt from the pair's lawyer, Sinclair went ahead and wrote the novel
Boston, which helped popularize the view that the trial of
Sacco and Vanzetti was a matter of injustice, and the notion the two were innocent.
This is not the first time their guilt has been asserted, either.
In 1961,
Max Eastman, famous leftist-turned-McCarthy supporter, wrote an article which alleged that the shadowy
anarcho-syndicalist,
Carlo Tresca, had told him that Sacco was guilty but Vanzetti was innocent.
posted by Heminator
on Dec 29, 2005 -
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