Voices on the Wind

VOICES ON THE WIND takes place during the final hours of the lives of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the two Italian immigrants who were executed in 1927 for the murder of a paymaster and guard during a Massachusetts robbery. The case continued to be discussed and dissected throughout the 20th century. In 1977, a declaration from then-Governor Michael Dukakis acknowledged that their trial was “permeated by prejudice against foreigners and hostility toward unorthodox polical views and the conduct of many of the officials involved in the case shed serious doubt on their willingness and ability to conduct the prosecution and trial of Sacco and Vanzetti fairly and impartially.”