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Editor's note: On June 27, 1964, Newsday published this article that went "Behind the Headlines," examining the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 50 years after it occurred. We republish it ...
As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...
A century later, The Guardian has published a look back at how the newspaper’s coverage downplayed the June 28, 1914, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Richard Norton-Taylor writes ...
LONDON, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- Horror at the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, was overshadowed here to-day by the fear that the gravest danger to the ...
June 28 is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo. Though this event in 1914 is often seen as the catalyst that ultimately ...
Life can be unpredictable and is often infused with bitter irony. Consider the incredible and terrible course of the two brothers Ernst and Max. Born into the luxury of the Austro-Hungarian imperial ...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, is widely seen as the central, precipitating event of the First World War: the spark that lit the conflagration.
User-Created Clip by CSPANCLASSROOM November 11, 2014 2013-12-15T20:00:33-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/960/20131215200309001_hd.jpgMargaret MacMillan ...