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View historical footage and photographs surrounding Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

View historical footage and photographs surrounding Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: historical footage and photographs.
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Transcript

NARRATOR: The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in June 1914 by the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at Sarajevo, gave start to World War I.