Event

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

6 links, 2 backed by primary records

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Primary record 1
Gavrilo Princip fired the shots Primary record 1
Nedeljko Čabrinović threw a bomb Scholarship & press 2
Oskar Potiorek rode in the car Scholarship & press 2
Dragutin Dimitrijević organized the plot, according to Stanoje Stanojević Scholarship & press 2

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Proof 2 sources

Record of the District Court at Serajevo against Gavrilo Princip and confederates (official Austrian report), from Source Records of the Great War, Vol. I, ed. Charles F. Horne, National Alumni 1923, Project Rastko (Serbian digital library), copy of text from firstworldwar.com, 1914. Primary record
Gavrilo Princip confesses that he fired two shots from a Browning pistol against the Archducal motor car, by which the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg received fatal wounds.
The Origins of the World War, 2nd edition revised, two volumes in one (first edition 1928), Sidney Bradshaw Fay (Harvard), Macmillan, New York, 1930. Scholarship & press
Chabrinovitch knocked off the cap of his bomb against a post, stepped forward, and hurled it at the Archduke's car.
but Potiorek called out. "That's the wrong way! Drive straight down the Appel Quay!" The chauffeur put on the brakes in order to back up.
In 1914 he took over and organized the [Sarajevo] plot against the Austrian Heir to the Throne [Franz Ferdinand].
But the verdict of the Versailles Treaty that Germany and her allies were responsible for the War, in view of the evidence now available, is historically unsound.

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