Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who lived 25 miles south of Washington near Waldorf, Maryland. After Mudd set his ...

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 ...

The remains of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin, wore removed from Washington on Monday afternoon, and arrived here on the same evening. An order was obtained Monday morning, and J. C. WEAVER ...

Scholars have “delighted” in the slender book, says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth expert in Virginia, because it remains the only manuscript of significant length that provides insightful ...

Where did you shoot the recreations? Most were shot in southern Maryland or Virginia, in the same places that John Wilkes Booth escaped during his 12 day run. For example, when we were shooting ...