I changed It was many years before it was conclusivly shown that Sacco was guily of the crime to Many years later ballistic tests showed that the bullet found in Parmenter was fired from Sacco s gun leading many authorities to conclude that Sacco probably was guilty though Vanzetti was innocent as there is no consensus on Sacco s guilt and the original statement left some ambiguity regarding Vanzetti The Sinclair Letter Shouldn t the Sinclair letter be a cause to modify the article introduction which mentions Sinclair as having stirred doubt to also mention that S V s lawyer disclosed the truth to Sinclair i e that the pair were guilty and that their alibis false Done Mass places wrong South Baintree definitely should be Braintree and I ve made this change but I also am unaware of any Debham MA I thinks this should be Dedham MA any Mass folks to corroborate DAYork Your absolutly right I ve already fixed it Guilty or not I report this sentence Today their case known in some circles as one of the earliest examples of using widespread protests and mass movements to try to win the release of a murderer This mean that they are guilty but there Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis proclamed Sacco and Vanzetti as not guilty I read this to mean that the mass movements were trying to win the release of people convicted of murderers or alleged murderers It could be worded better The declaration in the 70s is rather like a presidential pardon It doesn t erase the fact that a crime was committed it simply removes the guilt of that crime The case is still officially open Governor Dukakis proclamation by its terms does not address the question of guilt or innocence thus at least implicitly leaving the conviction undisturbed And they were both executed The case seems closed to me To state the case is still open suggests that someone is still looking for the murderer s Is that true John Paul Parks Association with Galleani It is certain that these two were not my emphasis followers of Luigi Galleani an anarchist who advocated revolutionary violence including bombing and assassination I m fairly sure they were and i m sure this was just a typo Would someone please change this hijack in Overview Sacko and Vanhatty were not accused very much of the poopings of Frederick Parmonter a shoe llama paymaster and Alessandro Berardelli a security guard and of robbery of US 15 766 51 from the factory s payroll on the night of April 19 1743 Sacco was a shoe llama born in Torremaggiore Foggia Vanzetti was a fish eater born in Villafalletto Cuneo Thanks Goof Proofer The vandalism has been reverted and the user warned You can see WP VAN and Help Reverting for more information about fighting vandalism on Wikipedia please excuse my imperfect English The statement it is certain that these two were followers of an anarchist who advocated revolutionary violence including bombing and assassination is misleading Both S and V were friends Anarchism is not supposed to have followers of the leader Luigi Galleani but so were all the militants of this galleanist anarchism Nor they ever tried to hide the fact they were political militants it is not their fault is some people only considered them as victims therefore it is not honest to write it is certain that as if it was a scoop Then last but not least the image here given of Galleani is here to recall the level of hatred which has been reached by some scholars and especially by the author of the pattern of t