The result was an ultimatum issued by Wladimir Giesl, the Austro-Hungarian minister in Belgrade. Shot by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, Ferdinand and wife Sophie died later that day. Perhaps it was in that very room on June 28, 1914, that Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph received word of his heir apparent Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo. Yet before Kennedy met the Soviet premier, and his fate in Dallas, an assassination nearly a half-century earlier would change history. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev would meet in the palace’s Great Gallery during the Vienna Summit. Sumptuous and decadent in the Baroque and Rococo styles, the Hapsburg family’s summer retreat looks not a thing like the rustic Camp David or the rambling Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port. There is a palace in Vienna called Schönbrunn. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand (credit: Wikimedia Commons) I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. I was placed in the cell next to Princip’s, and when Princip was taken out to walk in the prison yard I was taken along as his companion… Awakened in the middle of the night and told that he was to be carried off to another prison, Princip made an appeal to the prison governor: “There is no need to carry me to another prison. The next day they put chains on Princip’s feet, which he wore till his death.
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They knocked him down, they kicked him, scraped the skin from his neck with the edges of their swords, tortured him, all but killed him. They beat him over the head with the flat of their swords. Then his head fell back and he collapsed. He uttered only one word, ‘Sofia’, a call to his stricken wife. The second bullet struck the Archduke close to the heart. The first struck the wife of the Archduke, Archduchess Sofia, in the abdomen. As the car came abreast he stepped forward from the curb, drew his automatic pistol from his coat and fired two shots. Francis Ferdinand’s car could go fast enough until it reached this spot but here it was forced to slow down for the turn. The road was shaped like the letter V, making a sharp turn at the bridge over the River Milgacka.
The Archduke was persuaded to drive the shortest way out of the city and to go quickly. The cars sped to the Town Hall and the rest of the conspirators did not interfere with them.Īfter the reception in the Town Hall General Potiorek, the Austrian Commander, pleaded with Francis Ferdinand to leave the city, as it was seething with rebellion. Several officers riding in his attendance were injured. It hit the side of the car, but Francis Ferdinand with presence of mind threw himself back and was uninjured.
When the car passed Gabrinovic, he threw his grenade. The motor cars were driving too fast to make an attempt feasible and in the crowd were many Serbians throwing a grenade would have killed many innocent people. When Francis Ferdinand and his retinue drove from the station they were allowed to pass the first two conspirators. They were distributed 500 yards apart over the whole route along which the Archduke must travel from the railroad station to the town hall. In Sarajevo all the twenty-two conspirators were in their allotted positions, armed and ready. Borijove Jevtic was one of Gavrilo Princip’s co-conspirators in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
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