The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti Part 2

Album: Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)
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  • With lyrics by Joan Baez and music by Ennio Morricone, "The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti Part 2" was written for the 1971 film Sacco & Vanzetti, which dramatizes the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who, amid great controversy, were convicted in the case of a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts in which two people were murdered.

    The film, and the song, make the case that Sacco and Vanzetti were persecuted because they were poor, immigrants, and anarchists. Their case had long been in the history books, but by 1971 it was evoked as part of the American civil rights movement, which Baez supported whole-heartedly. Whether or not they committed the crime remains a topic of debate.

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