Gavrilo Princip was one of three men involved in the assassination plot directly, and a member of the Black Hand, a group of Serbian nationalist extremists (Jay 19). That young gunman was nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip, misidentified by The Times in London as Nadjeliko Cabrinovitch just a day after it happened. He was promptly pointed out by the crowd and arrested by Bosnian officials. After the failed bombing, the speech and the inspection of Sarajevo’s military parade, riding in the back of a roofless motor-car-as was common for the time-through the streets of Sarajevo among a crowd of thousands gathered to see the royal couple, they were shot dead (The Times).Īfter the two shots were fired, the young gunman swallowed a cyanide pill but somehow survived (Jay 19). The shooting occurred just hours after a botched bombing attempt, about which the Archduke is recorded to have said to the military governor, “What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit, and I get bombs thrown in my face. The royal couple were invited to the Bosnian capital of Saravejo, which was annexed by the Austrian empire in 1908, by General Oskar Potoirek to attend a speech in the city hall and inspect imperial military personnel. On the twenty-eighth of June, 1914, a young man toppled the fragile structure of world order with two bullets-one for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, the other for the Archduke’s wife, Sophie.
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