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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 ...
John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...
One hundred sixty years ago tonight, at Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth put a bullet in the head of President Abraham Lincoln. What motivated the 26-year-old actor? Fame? No, he had plenty of ...
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 ...
Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...
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 ...
Elizabeth Drews, center, playing attempted Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, is flanked by Michael Steen, left, playing Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, and Brandon Douglas as McKinley assassin ...
At about 10:15 p.m., John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, entered Lincoln’s private box, and, at a moment of laughter in the play, fired his pistol at the president from two feet away.
This week in history, on April 14, 1865, upon hearing the word “sockdologizing,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. A print of ...
John Wilkes Booth. That was during the COVID-19 pandemic. The offer was conditioned on Sexton being fully vaccinated. Sexton sought a medical exemption from the vaccine mandate based on his ...
Contractor ITG Communications hangs the first mile of mainline fiber cable for Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative in Haviland, Ohio, on April 15, 2025 Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative ...