The Medford Public Library is co-presenting an online program, “Sacco & Vanzetti: Murderers Or Martyrs?” led by Gregory Williams, who was a District Court judge for many years. Accused of a 1920 South Braintree robbery, during which two men were murdered in cold blood, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. But did evidence support their convictions “beyond a reasonable doubt?” Or were they “convicted” simply because they were Italian immigrants — and anarchists?

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