Bartolomeo Vanzetti, along with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco, was executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on August 23, 1927, for a 1920 armed robbery in which a clerk and a security guard were murdered. It is doubtful that either of the two Italian-born laborers—Vanzerri was a fishmonger; Sacco, a shoemaker—had anything to do with these crimes; […]
Daily Archives: June 20, 2008
A man frantically tries to stop a train before it enters Bhopal. The conductor does stop the train, causing the man, insane with joy, to start spastically dancing on the tracks. We return to this scene near the end of Mahesh Mathai’s riveting, heartrending Bhopal Express, where we learn the import of the young man’s […]
