IrishGunner Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 And interesting article 99 Things You Need To Know About Franz Ferdinand Before The 100th Anniversary Of His Assassination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dond Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul wood Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Most interesting, I think George V would have got on well with him pre-war as he used to like to shoot anything that moved (apart from when he was sticking stamps in his album). Reminds me of the Tom Lehrer song "two game wardens, seven hunters and a pure bred Jersey cow.", especially the line " they ask me how I do it, I say there's nothing to it, you just stand there looking cute and when something moves you shoot." Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidck Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I have the good fortune to live in Sarajevo and to have been present at the assassination site at the exact time, 100 years later. I was disappointed with the event however, as there really wasn't one. No cannon shot or moment of silence to mark the assassination. There was an older man present in what looked to be his Austrian military uniform, there was a replica of the car, and some political delegation drove by en route to a hotel. There was a concert by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at night, which I did not attend, but that seems to have been the only real event to mark the occasion. There was also a notable lack of sobriety, with people milling about, waving flags, and singing religious and nationalistic songs. There was even a man with a water gun who jokingly shot at every car that drove by. And now I'm reading that a statue to Princip has been erected in East Sarajevo--which is actually a separate city from Sarajevo itself. The ghosts of 1914 continue to haunt this region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishGunner Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 David, thanks for the report. Quite interesting. And maybe disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishGunner Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 The New York Herald, June 28, 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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