10 Famous People Who Protested Sacco and Vanzetti's Conviction
On the good afternoon of April 15 , 1920 — exactly 95 eld ago today — the Slater - Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree , Massachusetts became the site of one of the most infamous crimes in modern American history when an attempted robbery turn into a dual homicide . While perform the mundane task of transporting the company ’s payroll from the horseshoe factory to its HQ , Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter — a security safety gadget and ship’s company paymaster , severally — were ambuscade by two man in an attempt to take the money and run ....