The pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has been discovered in a Jesuit community house in Austria.(News)(Brief Article)

History Today | August 1, 2004 | Copyright

The pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has been discovered in a Jesuit community house in Austria. It had been given to the Jesuit priest who performed the last rites on the archduke so he might open a museum dedicated to the incident. ...

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