# Sacco and Vanzetti

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 23, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668 "2015-08-23T23:57:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/1 "2015-08-23T23:57:59Z")

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Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on 23 August 1927. Here’s Christy Moore singing Woody Guthrie’s Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti in 2011 for all the sentimental lefty Dopers out there: [Christy Moore - Sacco and Vanzetti (Woody Guthrie) 2011 - YouTube](http://youtu.be/brhzBlyJgqo)

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**Author:** ![McGuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@McGuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGuffy)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/2 "2015-08-24T02:37:14Z")

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Thank you.  
I like their version.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/3 "2015-08-24T05:28:25Z")

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Thanks, **Kropotkin**.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/4 "2015-08-24T12:12:42Z")

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Are there any songs about [Parmenter and Berardelli](http://saccoandvanzetti.org/sn_display1.php?row_ID=71)?

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/5 "2015-08-24T12:27:54Z")

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[Obligatory Onion article.](http://www.theonion.com/graphic/august-23-1927-10571)

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**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/6 "2015-08-24T16:22:46Z")

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It turns out that they were both guilty [according](http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/24/local/me-sinclair24) to their lawyer.

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**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/7 "2015-08-24T21:26:41Z")

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Hearing their names always reminds me of a favorite professor of mine, [Sacvan Bercovitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacvan_Bercovitch). We once had a discussion about character names in novels, in which he pointed out that no characters existed with his first name, since (as noted in the Wiki article) he was named after Sacco and Vanzetti.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacco-and-vanzetti/728668/8 "2015-08-24T21:56:08Z")

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> [@Kropotkin](#):
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> for all the sentimental lefty Dopers out there: [http://youtu.be/brhzBlyJgqo](http://youtu.be/brhzBlyJgqo)

We love being shamelessly pandered to, that is us,