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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austrian heir, and his beloved wife Sophie, the duchess of Hohenburg, were shot and killed today by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during their official visit to Sarajevo, the capital of
Bosnia.
Prior to his visit to Sarajevo, the Archduke received multiple warnings to cancel the trip, however he still departed.
This morning, as Ferdinand and his wife were on their way to a reception at the town hall of Sarajevo where the major of Sarajevo had been expecting them. Little did they know that seven young Bosnians had fanned along the Appel Quay, the main avenue of Sarajevo running parallel to the Milijacka River where a Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic hurled bomb was thrown at their open-topped motor car but instead rolling underneath a different vehicle.
The explosion left multiple officers and a few bystanders slightly injured, Ferdinand and his wife were left unharmed. Cabrinovic, the nationalist jumped into the dry riverbed and made an attempt to kill himself before being seized. He
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The motor car travelled down the Appel Quay at high speed to attempt to avoid any other bomb throwers. By mistake, the car turned onto a side street, where Gavrio Princip happened to be loitering. As the cars attempted to reverse back out onto the Appel Quay, Princip pulled out his pistol and fired two shots into the direction of the Archduke and his wife. The first shot struck the duchess in the lower abdomen, as the second shot struck the neck of the heir, piercing the Jugular vein. The duchess lost consciousness almost instantly and fell across the knees of her husband. The Archduke lost consciousness a few seconds later. Both unconscious in the limousine, they were rushed to seek medical attention, however both died on the
As they approached the entrance of the station, Richardson who was fleeing the scene ran directly into one of the officers. One of the officer noticed Richardson was shot and attempted to stop Richardson. The other officer continued down into the subway and witnesses Skagen holding his gun and pointing it towards him, the officer emptied his gun into Skagen who was able to let off one round prior to the officer shooting him. Richardson was later apprehended and taken to the emergency room for his wounds. His gun was also retrieved. Skagen was rushed to the same hospital emergency room where he was pronounced dead.
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While on a visit in Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand's motorcade was first attacked was not successful that was avoided by the Archduke's driver and his driving skills. Princip thinking that by now all security for the Archduke were change, He was buying a sandwich when he saw himself five feet away from the Archduke, he shot Franz Ferdinand in the
On September 6, 1901 during a reception in the Temple of music, during the Pan-American Expo in Buffalo New York, a violent shooting accused. The guest of the reception were scrambling in hopes to escape the gun fire. Through all of the screaming and chaos, only one man was hit in this shooting. This man was hit twice, one grazed his ribs and the other hit right in his mid stomach, but before he was able to get a third round off, the gunned man was wrestled to the ground by security. Quickly after the man was shot, he was rushed to a local hospital. The doctors examined the wonders and found that there was no exit whole for the bullet that struck the man in the stomach. This meant they would have to retrieve the bullet in order for this man
“Right after he shot the man and the woman, the same person from the opposite side fired a gunshot at him again” said the witnesses. After which he also got his right forearm injured badly.
Some of the bullets managed to hit some of the barrels which caused a chain reaction of explosions. Soldiers everywhere were returning fire while other gasping for help. Fletcher scanned around the room for Marcel. He saw him lying behind a brick wall as cover. He seemed to be severely injured as his hand, tainted with blood, covered of what seemed to be several bullet holes. Fletcher couldn’t believe what was happening. There were soldiers lying lifeless here and there. It was complete chaos. Fletcher knew he had been fooled. He knew that secretly there was no prize. He knew that he had to
On June 28, Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were riding through Sarajevo in an open car when suddenly, a young terrorist by the name of Gavrilo Princip stepped from the curb and took aim at the couple with a pistol. Just like that, the heir to the throne and his wife were
On June 28th Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated at a local coffee shop in Sarajevo, Austria by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the terrorist group ‘The Black Hand’. The Archduke and Duchess were at the coffee shop after their driver took a wrong turn which lead them to their end.
That was the beginning of Frankum’s mass murder. Wade Frankum continued to kill with his gun, shooting bullets all over the place. He moved from the café to a nearby supermarket and later to the
Genocide is the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. In Germany during World War II a man named Hitler tried to eliminate any race except for what he called the "Arian" race. In the process he committed genocide by killing off 6 million Jews and a total of 8 million people in all. Europe was going through some very hard times during the mid 1900's so that no one was able to see a disaster such as the Holocaust coming. Many things led to the weakening of Europe at the time. The Ottoman Empire was breaking up plus they were still trying to get over the devastation of WW I. Bosnia and Herzegovina had been having many problems as well. They were a witness to much change and
Franz Ferdinand traveled to Sarajevo, Bosnia to inspect their imperial armed forces. At Sarajevo, Franz and Sophie Ferdinand were traveling to City Hall for their official reception. However, the Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist group, planned to assassinate Franz. The 7 group members were stationed evenly along
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir of the throne of Austria-Hungary; he hoped that his sympathy for the Slavs would ease the tension between Austria-Hungary and the Balkans.
Serbia was upset of Bosnia being placed under Austrian rule because of their devotion to Slavic nationalism, and Austria was aware of their disappointment and unhappiness. Austria suggested eliminating Pan-Slavism because they were worried about the idea of Serbian terrorists in their country because of Serbia's aggression towards them. Austria was aware that Bosnia favored Slavic nationalism just like Serbia. Austria-Hungary could have avoided intervening in the social and political ideas of getting rid of Slavic nationalism and being oppressive to the Serbian people. By sending an Austrian political figure to Serbia during the turmoil was an unintelligent action for Austria to make because it was a fact that the Archduke's life would be put in danger and that he would most likely be killed. The Austrian government even expressed how the atmosphere created by the malicious agitation in Serbia sprang up a series of murderous attacks on high functionaries of the Monarchy, which ended in the execrable crime against the exalted person of the heir to the throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had been carefully prepared in Serbia(The Austro-Hungarian Red Book). Austria knew that Serbia
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914 (Brook-Shepherd 250), gave the Austro-Hungarians the justification needed to attack the Pan-Slavic threat. All that was known at the time was that the assassins were Slavs (Kohn 255) and that they had committed the crime in the hotbed of Pan-Slavic attention in Bosnia. It was later revealed that the murderer was associated with the afore-mentioned “Black Hand” group that advocated unification of all Slavs at whatever the cost (MacKenzie 61) The immediate significance of the murder was that it gave Austria-Hungary a pretext for suppressing the Pan-Slavic
Thirty people were killed instantly. Eight later died from their injuries and hundreds of others were injured. A majority of the persons killed were messengers making deliveries, stenographers, clerks, and brokers (Gross, 2001).The blast was so strong it sent debris soaring as high as 34 floors and derailed a street car one block over(Andrews, 2014). Buildings shook as their large windows burst inwards. Luckily, most of the occupants inside were spared