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To the Editors of The Crimson:
I purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare."
This sentence contains two errors of fact, Sacco and Vanzetti were put to death in the electric chair in Charlestown State Prison. After trial in Superior Court in Dedham they had been found guilty of murder in the first degree. They were tried for murder and not for treason.
I lived through those days of trial, appeal, agitation, and execution. The executions look place a few months after I graduated from Harvard College. David C. Dow '27
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