Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti were arrested when they fell into a trap laid for another Italian, Michael Boda, a bootlegger whom police suspected of being involved in the robbery.

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact ...

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were suspected communists. They were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

This was known as the Red Scare. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants. The two men acknowledged that they were radicals and that they had avoided serving in World War One.