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December 28, 2005
Lying for the Cause, Sacco and Vanetti version
Oh, my. Were Sacco and Vanzetti really guilty all along? G as in good . . . pointed me to Betsy's page from which I then went to an LA Times story about a rediscovered Upton Sinclair letter.
I gave my father In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage, a short book about historians willing to lie for their cause for Christmas - so this revelation seems well-timed. I'll have to tell mother to print the LA times story for him.
If Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty as charged there are a lot of people who ought to remove one of their key examples of what they perceive as the injustice of the American judicial system. Would they? Let me predict that this evidence won't make the slightest difference for a very long time. I think it'll take a generation for the Venona decrypts to break down resistance to Soviet espionage.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at December 28, 2005 6:45 AM