#6: 28 June 1914 - Assassination in Sarajevo
Added 2024-07-10 09:30:02 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
On 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb terrorist. What followed was the July Crisis, as Austria-Hungary attempted to gain a measure of justice, or even revenge. No story of the July Crisis is complete without beginning here, but considering its infamy, what is there left to learn about this assassination and all that flowed from it? I would like to humbly invite you to join me, as I investigate how the act was carried out, what other assassination attempts in Sarajevo meant, why Franz Ferdinand's unique circumstances made the atrocity possible, and why the Austrians really should have seen it all coming.
Comments
This is truly “The Shot Heard Round the World", not that little fracas in the North American English Civil War in the late 1700s.
Michael Mulhern
2024-07-10 09:51:19 +0000 UTC
