Biography:Andrea Salsedo
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| Born | Andrea Salsedo 24 September 1881 Pantelleria, Italy |
| Died | 3 May 1920 (aged 38) New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Galleanist who died under mysterious circumstances |
Andrea Salsedo (21 September 1881 – 3 May 1920) was an Italian anarchist whose death caused controversy as it was caused by a suspicious fall from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (BOI) offices on 15 Park Row in New York City. Depending on the source, his death was either a suicide[1] or a homicide committed by detaining officers;[2] nevertheless, the case was widely debated both for its unclear nature and for its consequences on the Bureau and was one of the premises of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.[3][4]
Biography
How Salsedo died is still unclear. Some sources say that he got up at night, silently walked across the room and jumped out the window, killing himself.[5] According to Roberto Elia, Salsedo could have been killed for fear of betraying other fellow anarchists.[1] The Boston Herald reported that before dying, Salsedo gave names of other anarchists.[6] Other sources, on the contrary, say that Salsedo was severely beaten numerous times during his interrogations,[7] and was ultimately killed by officers[8], who hurled him out the window.[2] Salsedo's death happened just two days prior to Sacco and Vanzetti's arrest.
See also
- Anarchism in Italy
- Anarchism in the United States
- Giuseppe Pinelli
- Pietro Valpreda
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 David Felix, Protest: Sacco-Vanzetti and the Intellectuals (1965), 75-76, 80
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 McCormick, Charles H., Hopeless Cases, The Hunt For The Red Scare Terrorist Bombers (2005), Lanham Maryland: University Press of America, p. 60
- ↑ The Sacco-Vanzetti Case, University of Pennsylvania
- ↑ Sacco e Vanzetti uccisi con la «sedia elettrica»., La Stampa, April 15, 1981, p. 5.
- ↑ Ackerman, Kenneth: Young J. Edgar: Hoover and the Red Scare 1919-1920, 2011, Chapter 40.
- ↑ Stevan Chermak; Frankie Bailey, Crimes and Trials of the Century, 2007, p. 23.
- ↑ Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, Infobase, 2009, p. 9.
- ↑ Cook, Fred J. (1964). The FBI Nobody Knows. The Macmillan Company. pp. 113.
External links
- Andrea Salsedo of Pantelleria, libcom
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