Everyone is certainly familiar with the story of actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the President ... over to the family and buried in an unmarked grave during a private committal at Greenmount ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...

John Wilkes Booth, left. Abraham Lincoln ... a man who held funerals for pigeons and once dug up his daughter’s grave and attempted to revive her by sucking out her “impure” blood.

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...