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As it happens, George Floyd died exactly 100 years and 40 days after Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter were shot to death in a payroll robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts. These men have little in common with Floyd save that none of them deserved to die and that their respective deaths set off worldwide demonstrations orchestrated out of the very same playbook. In the 1920s, communists had to erase some immediate history — namely, the fact that a pair of Italian anarchists murdered Berardelli and Parmenter in cold blood. The evidence that the anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, killed the...

Filed at 5:23 p.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- Vito Bruno remembers his father and thousands of others marching through Boston's North End 75 years ago to protest the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The Italian immigrants were put to death in 1927 after they were convicted of killing two people during a robbery. Many observers -- then and now -- say the trial focused unfairly on their anarchist political beliefs and status as immigrants ``They were being targeted because they were Italian,'' said Bruno, 85, who lived just a few blocks from the funeral parlor where the bodies...