1927 January 27,28. Thompson appeals Thayer’s denial of October 23 to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. March. Frankfurter’s _Atlantic Monthly_ article. April 5. Supreme Court affirms Thayer’s denial of October 23. April 9. Sacco and Vanzetti sentenced. May 4. Governor Fuller receives Vanzetti’s clemency petition. June 1. Fuller appoints Advisory (“Lowell”) Committee. June 3. Calvin Goddard tests shells and bullets. July 27. Lowell Committee reports findings to Governor Fuller. August 3. Fuller refuses clemency. August 5. Bombings in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. August 7. Lowell Committee report made public. August 15. Juror McHardy’s house dynamited. August 23. Madeiros, Sacco, and Vanzetti executed. 1932 September 27. Thayer’s house bombed. 1959 April 2. Massachusetts Legislature Committee hearing on posthumous pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti. 1961 October 11. Re-examination of ballistics evidence by Jac Weller and Frank Jury. [Illustration: BEFORE THE SHOOTING: 1 Neal 2 Tracey 3 Heron 4 Novelli 5 Behrsin DURING THE SHOOTING: 6 Where Buick waited 7 Where Berardelli fell 8 Where Parmenter fell 9 Bostock 10 Wade 11 Nichols 12 McGlone 13 Langlois 14 Pelser 15 Liscomb 16 Laborers at excavation AFTER THE SHOOTING: 17 Kennedy, Hayes 18 Splaine, Devlin 19 Carrigan 20 Pierce, Ferguson 21 Levangie 22 Workers on railroad 23 Gould 24 Burke 25 DeBeradinis 26 Goodridge 27 Damato ] [Illustration: Brockton map] CHAPTER ONE THE TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM The case of Sacco and Vanzetti, which began as the prosecution for a commonplace if brutal murder, developed gradually into one of the world’s great trials. In the end it was much more than a trial. It became one of those events that divide a society. Although the issues that it raised have been overlaid by war and political events, they never wholly die. Even today middle-aged men and women, hearing by some chance the names Sacco and Vanzetti, still find themselves stirred by the passion and violence of their younger days. Sacco and Vanzetti have become a symbol, and, like all symbols, the meaning varies with those who adopt it.