The Press: At the Death

When Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand was done to death at Sarajevo 20 years ago, no camera caught the act, although a memorable newspicture shows the capture of Assassin Princip. Last year at Miami, Hearst's brash Cameraman Sammy Schulman snapped Chicago's late Mayor Cermak bleeding from his fatal pistol wound (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933). Far more striking was William Warneke's famed shot of New York's Mayor Gaynor, taken a second after a bullet struck him in the neck. But no complete view of an assassination—before, during & after the act —was ever caught by...

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