3 facts about sacco and vanzetti biography

 “But what good is the evidence and what good is the argument?  They are determined to kill us regardless of evidence, of law, of decency, of everything.  If they give us a delay tonight, it will only mean they will kill us next week.  Let us finish tonight.  I’m weary of waiting seven years to die, when they know all the time they intend to kill us.”
 --Sacco, August 22, 1927, fifteen hours before he and Vanzetti were executed.

 Sacco was born Ferdinando “Nando” Sacco in Torremaggiore, Italy in 1891 to a fairly successful olive oil dealer.  Some accounts say he either had no formal educationor dropped out at age nine; at trial he claimed he spent seven years in school and dropped out at age 14.He was an inquisitive boy with a love of machinery.

 Sacco emigrated to the United States in 1908 at the age of sixteen with his older brother Sabino, and the two settled in Milford, Massachusetts.  He soon found a jo