I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One ...

John Wilkes Booth wasn’t the best actor in the Booth ... only Booth but also a half-dozen conspirators who had originally signed on to Booth’s plan, and who aided his escape.

On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC — jumping from Lincoln’s box, breaking his leg and shouting ...