Was it the murder of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand?
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Do you mean motion picture or still photography? – Luke_0 Dec 11 '12 at 23:08
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@Luke: I meant motion, but still is also interesting. – Felix Goldberg Dec 11 '12 at 23:21
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Zapruder film??? – DVK Dec 11 '12 at 23:43
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3Does the murder of Topsy (1903) count? – yannis Dec 12 '12 at 11:08
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@YannisRizos: I really don't know... Hat off for digging it up, anyway. – Felix Goldberg Dec 12 '12 at 11:22
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3Note for those researching this - a lot of early "combat" and "crime" footage were re-enactments supplied by the Edison Company for newsreels. (Edison went so far as to have a model of San Francisco built, set on fire and shook by a camera assistant, and sold this as footage of the San Francisco Earthquake). – RI Swamp Yankee Dec 12 '12 at 16:10
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1Re murder of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand: it seems as if the relevant reel has gone missing: his arrival at the Sarajewo town hall and his funeral in Vienna in 1914 are both on film ... – Drux Dec 13 '12 at 13:23
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As for the first photographed (unsuccessful) assassination, my vote goes to the assassination attempt on William Jay Gaynor, the mayor of New York, on August 5, 1910: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Gaynor#Assassination_attempt – Feb 08 '20 at 13:00
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As a near miss, McKinley was photographed shortly before he was shot. – Spencer Dec 24 '21 at 17:19
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One potential resource is Wikipedia's list of filmed assassinations. Can anyone find any of those that preceed Alexander I of Yugoslavia in 1934? I picked that one at random, but a bit of google suggests that this may be the first assassination captured on film.
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My guess without going to Wikipedia is Alexander I of Yugoslavia while he was in Marsaille visiting a French leader. I think it was around 1934. I wonder if Austrian Chancellor Dolfuss's assassination (from around the same time) was caught live on radio or film.
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