Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

The first difference between the accounts was about how the plan to kill the archduke was concocted. The video shows us that Princip was the main mastermind of the plan. The People's Almanac tells us that it was concocted when 3 students were turned in to an official for planning some stunt against the archduke, the officer coincidentally being a leader of the Black Hand.

The second difference between the two is that the People's Almanac said that the Austrian government found out about the plan and had warned the archduke himself. In the video, no one had any idea that there was a plot to do anything concerning the archduke Frans Ferdinand.

A third difference between the accounts is that in the video they knew that they failed at assassinating the archduke when planned. In the almanac reference, they thought that they had succeeded in killing Frans Ferdinand and went to celebrate.

A fourth difference between the accounts would be how the parade ended up passing Princip at the coffee shop. The video showed them taking a wrong turn and trying to turn around. The almanac explained that they were going the way planned but decided to turn around to head toward the hospital to visit the injured officer.

The fifth difference I noticed was how Princip managed to kill the archduke and his wife. The video showed Princip pulling out his revolver and firing two or three shots at them from a distance, killing the archduke's wife instantly and the archduke died an hour or two later. The People's Almanac excerpt said that Princip walked up to the car and a shot the archduke who died 15 minutes after being shot. He then aimed at the officer but the officer grabbed his arm, screwing up his aim, making him accidentally shoot the archduke's wife.

A depiction of how Princip supposedly ran up to the archduke's caravan a shot both the archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie Chotek.