I'm Scott Simon. One hundred years ago today, a 19-year-old named Gavrilo Princip fired two shots that rocked the world. He shot and killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian ...
The assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 was the immediate shock that set a larger crisis in motion across Europe. Tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia had been building for years, fueled by ...