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The Big Question
The Atlantic
|October 2017
Q: What Crime Most Changed The Course Of History?
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Benjamin Percy, writer, Green Arrow and Teen Titans
If the Sons of Liberty, in defiance of the Tea Act, hadn’t boarded those ships in Boston Harbor in 1773 and heaved overboard shipments from the East India Company, then the British Parliament wouldn’t have responded with the Intolerable Acts. The American Revolution might not have erupted into all-out war, and the Constitution might not have been written
Tana French, author, The Trespasser
Gavrilo Princip’s assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, precipitated World War I, which reshaped large parts of the world politically, culturally, and psychologically and laid the groundwork for World War II.
Reginald Hudlin, director, Marshall
Some of the greatest crimes are not considered illegal.
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