Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassination Speech

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Its a sunny morning after the day of Archduke’s death , and Borijove Jevtic is in prison . An inmate says “Borijove why are you in jail”. Borijove Jevtic tells his story like this “ Well it was a sunny morning in Sarajevo, and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is arriving to give his speech. The Black Hand Members are going to assassinate the Archduke . I was there on that day , and was apart of the Archduke’s death that was about to proceed. I was in that group because they were like my family . We were quick to plan Ferdinand’s Death.

We planned to assassinate the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary . Unfortunately the Archduke was the heir to the throne. The black hand and I wanted to assassinate
Ferdinand because of the annex of our
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But the paper had made it to our hangout place. We left and went to a different place. Our new place was much better it was under the trees near my home that I own. The inmate says “ how was your home life .” Jevtic says , “ Do not interrupt me sir if you want to know my story of why I am in here you will learn to listen.” We all looked like brothers brown hair and brown eyes no had expected that we were assassin's planning to kill someone of Royalty. After a long day of planing death we decided to lay low until the next day. Gabriel decided that we go to his house and go over the plan until it was time to go in the morning . Gabe was so serious about laying low that all of us black hand members were not allowed outside . We also were not allowed to have anyone over . Hour after hour we went over that plan . I thought to myself why do we have to go over it again . I was only in that group to save my life from poverty . I was too poor and undereducated to get a good job . The black hand members all lived together except for Gabriel . Gabriel was coming down with some type of fatal health problem and did not want us to catch what he

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