On Trial for Murder: America's Most Famous Murder Trials

Sacco and Vanzetti: Anarchists on Trial (1x4)

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Do juries always get it right? Can public opinion sway the results? The infamous Sacco and Vanzetti trial over a deadly robbery brings these questions to the fore. This lecture takes you into the tumultuous 1920s, where issues of social class, race, and xenophobia created a spectacle around the trial of two Italian Americans.