Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections
Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections Al Southwick The news stories about the Sacco and Vanzetti exhibit in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston brought me back to a day in October 1932. My father drove our old Essex slowly up Institute Road from Park Avenue and stopped at Beechmont Street. There we and others gazed at a wrecked house on the corner. It was the home of Judge Webster Thayer. It had been blasted by a bomb the night before. A policeman watched warily as we took in the scene. The crime was never solved, but few doubted that it was retaliation for Judge Thay...
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