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 ...

Or was he? Efforts by descendants to open the Baltimore grave believed to be John Wilkes Booth’s were thwarted in 1995 by a judge who concluded its location could not be conclusively determined.

Or was he? Efforts by descendants to open the Baltimore grave believed to be John Wilkes Booth's were thwarted in 1995 by a judge who concluded its location could not be conclusively determined.

Mainstream history texts say John Wilkes Booth was shot to death after Army ... asked a Baltimore Circuit Court judge to allow the grave to be opened so the remains in Booth’s burial case ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Relatives of John Wilkes Booth hope to use DNA testing to settle the mystery of whether the presidential assassin is actually the man buried in a Baltimore grave. The official ...

John Wilkes Booth hid from federal troops for ... Trimble Jr. Since then, he said, the exact location of Booth’s grave within the plot has been forgotten, and cemetery records and conflicting ...