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WWI Museum hosts 100th
HARRISON DRAKE news@kansan.com
ARENA CHITANAVONG
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The music of Beethoven and Johann Strauss filled the National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial on Saturday as the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra String Quartet played a ballad to commemorate an event that shook the world exactly a century ago.
The National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial memorialized the anniversary of the 1914 assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife with a series of educational events.
"Today's ceremony is intended to be reflective and indeed solemn because it marked the beginnings of the founding catastrophe of the twenty-
first century, and we remember the events that pulled every continent into the first global war," Thomas Burch, the museum's board of trustees chairman, said.
A free self-guided tour on the museum's South mall featured stories from the seven assassins that plotted to kill the Archduke, as well as a 1910 Maytag-Mason automobile, a similar model that Ferdinand rode in during his demise.
There was also a Twitter reenactment project of the assassination run by @KU_WWI. By using #KU_WWI, participants developed a reenactment script to retell the events as they occurred.
"This is just one way in which to engage with people and this topic, and hopefully it can inspire them to learn more," Adrienne Landry, outreach coordinator of the center for Russian,
Eastern European & Eur at the University, said.
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