By Lee Cary ——Bio and Archives--July 14, 2024
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On June 19, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb student, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie. It triggered the First World War, wrongly predicted by H.G. Wells to be the end of wars.
On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old, is alleged to have used his father’s rifle in a failed attempt........