Sacco Vs. Vanzetti

The Sacco and Vanzetti case came on November, 1982 in letter from Ideale Gambera to Francis Russell. In his letter to Russell, Gambera said "Everyone [in the anarchist inner circle] knew that Sacco was guilty and that Vanzetti was innocent as far as the actual participation in killing." Vanzetti assuredly knew who the Braintree bandits were. He may have had a less time in planning the crime, or maybe had prior grasp of the crime, but it seems likely that Vanzetti was, as he told the jury, selling fish in Plymouth on April 15, 1920. Also in his letter, Gambera’s father, Giovanni Gambera, who died at age 93 in June 1982, was a member of the four-person team of anarchist leaders. They met right after the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti to plan for their defense.

Like most thinkers of the time, Russell did his research assuming that both Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent. Over the years of examining physical evidence, studying the transcripts, and interviewing those close to the case was sure that Russell’s theory was half-wrong. Vanzetti was innocent, but Sacco was guilty. There wasn’t enough evidence against Vanzetti, pretty much almost nothing. In 1941, anarchist leader Carlo Tresca, provided the first inside authorization of Sacco's guilt when he told Max Eastman, "Sacco was guilty but Vanzetti was