English subtitles for clip: File:1934-10-17 King Alexander Assassination.ogv
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1 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:19,500 You're about to see the most amazing pictures ever made, 2 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,500 the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. 3 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,000 The ill-fated ruler arriving at Marseille aboard the Yugoslavian cruiser Dubrovnik 4 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,200 is visiting France on a mission of extreme importance. 5 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:37,200 The final move in critical negotiations, he hopes, will cement the goodwill relationships 6 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:39,500 of Yugoslavia, Italy and France, 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,500 and banish the specter of war from the Adriatic and mid Europe. 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,500 As he hastens ashore, where thousands are waiting to greet him and welcome him to France, 9 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,800 the Balkan ruler is in a happy mood. 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,400 He is on the eve of his greatest triumph, 11 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,000 international amity for his country in the family of nations. 12 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,500 And what a welcome he gets as he sets foot on French soil, 13 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:05,500 on the Quai des Belges in the ancient French port. 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,200 He's to be escorted in regal fashion through the city to the railroad station, 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,500 accompanied by the aged French Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou, 16 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,500 mastermind of Europe's tangled diplomacy. 17 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,500 To Barthou, too, the morrow in Paris promises a fruition of his greatest work for France, 18 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 the building of a Latin-Slavic bulwark across southern Europe against Germany and Hitlerism. 19 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,000 And so, the Balkan monarch and the revered French statesman begin their fateful ride, the ride of death, 20 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,500 little dreaming of a terrible catastrophe that awaits them a block or so away. 21 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,300 Police line the street, and a mounted escort rides ahead, but no trouble is expected. 22 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,700 It's again a day in Marseille. 23 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,700 Vive Alexander! Vive le roi! 24 00:01:57,500 --> 00:01:59,000 Oh, they've been shot! 25 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Oh, the King is dying and Barthou's fatally wounded. 26 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:29,000 The crowd is infuriated. The police can't hold them. 26 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,400 It's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Pandemonium has broken loose. 27 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:37,000 The mob is out to beat the man to death. They'll do it, too. 28 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,200 He's a Croatian conspirator, one of the King's own subjects, 29 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,000 chosen by luck to do this foul deed. 30 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:53,200 He tried to kill himself after firing a fusillade into the King's car, 31 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,500 but the police and the crowd were too quick for him. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,400 The fury of the crowd is not to be denied. 33 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Meanwhile, the King has breathed his last, 34 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,000 victim of a tragedy that's rocking the very foundations of Europe.