The year was 1915, and the world was in the midst of the Great War.

Although America was not yet entangled in the global conflict,

neutral and isolationist sentiments were on the decline.

Roughly 10% of the United States population was German at the time,

and anti-German sentiments published in newspapers

were fueling existing wartime anxieties.

One man, a German nationalist,

was so enraged by what he was witnessing in the media

that he decided to take matters into his own hands.

He was determined to make a statement,

but during such a chaotic time,

how do you get the world's most powerful people

to pay attention? For Eric Munter, the answer was violence. This is the story of the attempted

assassination of the son and namesake of one of the richest men in history, J.P. Morgan,

and the many lives of the man who tried to kill him. I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. Eric Musil. Eric Munter immigrated to the United States

after completing his studies in Prussia,

what is now present-day Germany.

A brilliant student of philology, the study of languages,

Munter continued his education at the University of Chicago. While teaching

at Harvard, Munter lived a relatively quiet life with his wife, Leone, and their daughter. But in 1906,

Leone mysteriously died of arsenic poisoning, while pregnant with her second child. The police quickly focused

on Munter, but before authorities could catch him, he fled Massachusetts and assumed a new

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