Hello! Welcome to Fast Past, the history podcast in close to thirty minutes less! We're back! After a hiatus, we decided to start the pod up again and wanted to revisit some episodes from our past pod. Today we'll be talking about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose death was the catalyst for World War I. Sources:Mindich, Talia. “8 Things You Didn’t Know about Franz Ferdinand.” PBS, June 27, 2014. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/8-things-didnt-know-franz-ferdinand. “The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.” History.com. https://www.history.com/articles/the-assassination-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand. Nugus, Philip, and Jonathan Martin. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. London, England: British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, 2007.Shackelford, Michael. “The Black Hand.” The black hand. https://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/blk-hand.html. Mutschlechner, Martin. “Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand – a Tense Relationship.” Die Welt der Habsburger. https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/franz-joseph-and-franz-ferdinand-tense-relationship.