468. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Sophie, on the 28th of June 1914. Unbeknownst to them, six assassins, including Gavrilo Princip, line the route of the motorcade, from Sarajevo train station to the town hall. Having completed the inspection, the Archduke faces a first assassination attempt on the way to the town hall, as a bomb, thrown at his car by one of the conspirators, narrowly misses, wounding more than 15 people. Although clearly perturbed by the assassination attempt, Franz Ferdinand decides to continue with his day as planned, thus sealing his fate… Join Tom and Dominic in the final instalment of our series on the murder of the Franz Ferdinand, as they delve into the finals hours of his life, and look at the series of poor decisions that would lead to Gavrilo Princip completing his mission, and going down in infamy… _______ *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:10.7	That's rest is History Pod.com. The day was mild.
0:25.0	A cloudless sky lay over the broad chestnut trees.
0:29.0	It was a day made to be happy.
0:31.0	The vacation days would soon set in for the people and children and on
0:35.3	this holiday they anticipated the entire summer with its fresh air, it's a lush
0:40.6	green and the forgetting of all daily cares. I was sitting at some distance from the
0:46.2	crowd in the park reading a book. Nevertheless, I was simultaneously aware of the wind in the
0:51.9	trees, the chirping of the birds, and the music which was
0:55.8	wafted toward me from the park.
0:58.1	And so it was that I suddenly stopped reading when the music broke off abruptly. I did not know what piece the band was playing.
1:06.7	I noticed only that the music had broken off. Instinctively I looked up from my book. The crowd which strolled through the trees as a
1:16.1	single light moving mass also seemed to have undergone a change. It too had suddenly come to a halt.
1:24.4	Something must have happened.
1:27.6	So that was Stephen Zweig in the world of yesterday,
1:30.6	and he is describing the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of June 1914.
1:37.0	He was reading in a park in Barden just outside Vienna and of course the something that has happened is the news arriving of the
1:46.5	assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and he posted this
1:52.2	manuscript just before he committed suicide in
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