In the mid-19th century, Edwin Booth was widely regarded as America's greatest Shakespearean actor. But today, the ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

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 ...

Latin for “thus always to tyrants” — Booth jumped from Lincoln ... photo. Saying he was gravely ill, he told the attorney in a deathbed confession that he was actually John Wilkes Booth ...

Illustration by Cliff Alejandro; Reference Images: National Archvies; Albert Davis Collection Asia Booth ... John Wilkes, her younger brother, was wanted for the assassination of President Lincoln.

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 ...

Five days after the end of the Civil War, the joy of peace was shattered when John Wilkes Booth and ... In addition to Booth killing President Abraham Lincoln, the plan was for Lewis Powell ...

Now a woman in downtown New York City believes that the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln may have begun in her building. Did John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln ...

On April 26, 1865, Edward P. Doherty, one of the unheralded heroes of Irish American history, tracked down and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Most people will know the ...

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 ...

It was 150 years ago Tuesday that President Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth, and to mark the ... the wildest possible description... PHOTO GALLERY: Lincoln Ever-Present ...