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To: Jane_N

I thought it was a bomb thrown in the car that killed the Archduke.


4 posted on 11/12/2004 4:38:12 AM PST by August West (To each according to his ability, from each according to his need...)
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To: August West

A bomb was thrown at his motorcade earlier in the day, but it bounced off his car or otherwise missed and injured a couple of policemen or security people traveling with him.

The only reason that Franz Ferdinand was in the alley where he was shot, was that his driver made a wrong turn and had to stop and turn around to get back on the correct route. Princip just happened to be standing where he could charge forward and fire the two shots that killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife.

I've seen a picture of the police dogpiling on Princip immediately after the shooting...it's very eerily reminiscent of the TV footage from John Hinckley's attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981.

}:-)4


10 posted on 11/12/2004 6:34:44 AM PST by Moose4 (Facing the barrel of the RPG, our journalistic objectivity evaporated.)
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To: August West

No, they were both shot.


14 posted on 11/12/2004 7:38:12 AM PST by Irene Adler
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