John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...

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 ...

Everyone is certainly familiar with the story of actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the President in the box seats at Ford’s Theatre, resulting in his death the following morning. But what ...

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 ...

John Wilkes Booth certainly saw himself as a dramatic figure in history. Upon shooting Lincoln, he jumped onto the stage and condemned his victim in Latin National Treasure: Amelia Earhart ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Though his brother John is known for killing President Lincoln, Edwin Booth was a very different man. Here’s why there’s a massive statue of him in New York ...

a limited series about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of the conditions for Sexton’s casting was that he be fully vaccinated, in compliance ...

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 ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean actors has been designated a Harford County Historic Landmark for its ...

John Wilkes Booth – Maryland born, second rate actor, round-the-clock drunk, handsome womanizer, Southern sympathizer, white supremacist, and presidential assassin – is a man every American ...