![]() Paris was engrossed in a murder trial brimming with sex and political scandal. ![]() “To the world, or to a nation,” The Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota declared, “an archduke more or less makes little difference.” President Wilson, pacing the lonely corridors of the White House, was distraught over the first lady’s failing struggle for life. America was serene in its isolation and prosperity. Some parts of the international community weren’t listening at all. ![]() ![]() Nobody at the time called the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, “a shot heard round the world.” The phrase, filched from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” epitomizes a judgment that crystallized only as the horrendous sequels played out. ![]()
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