Pure B.S.
Reagan posthumously pardoned Sacco & Vanzetti.
(If memory serves, there have been some few others. I don't have time to do a search just now. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
I think you are mistaken. Saco & Vanzetti were convicted in State (Mass.), not federal, court, and were posthumously pardoned by the Massachusetts legislature.
Governor Peter Fuller's son protested that decision vociferously. Governor Peter Fuller's son was for years a well known car salesman in Massachusetts.