Infamous Assassinations
Season 1, Episode 25: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Sarajevo, 1914 A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two of the assassins had bombs and one, a student named Gavril Princep, had a pistol. When the bombs failed, the Archduke''s car took another route and almost stopped outside the cafι where Princep was sitting. Within seconds, the Archduke and his wife were mortally wounded. The events of that day on Sunday 28th June led to the outbreak of World War I.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
Episode 2
The attempt on Princess Anne
Episode 3
The Assassination of John Lennon
Episode 4
The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Episode 5
The Assassination of Trotsky
Episode 6
The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
Episode 7
The Assassination of Sikorski
Episode 8
The Assassination of President McKinley
Episode 9
The Assassination of Heydrich
Episode 10
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Episode 11
The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
Episode 12
The Assassination of Verwoerd
Episode 13
The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
Episode 14
The Assassination of Che Guevara
Episode 15
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Episode 16
The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
Episode 17
The Assassination of Michael Collins
Episode 18
The Attempts on De Gaulle
Episode 19
The Attempt on Hitler
Episode 20
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Episode 21
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Episode 22
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Episode 23
The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
Episode 24
The Assassination of King Alexander
Episode 25
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Episode 26
The Assassination of John F Kennedy