Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

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 ...

Asia was married to an actor, John Sleeper Clarke ... says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth expert in Virginia, because it remains the only manuscript of significant length that provides ...

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the ...

On April 14, 1865, the country’s jubilant End-of-War celebration veered into woe. President Lincoln was dead, shot “the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.” ...

Most were shot in southern Maryland or Virginia, in the same places that John Wilkes Booth escaped ... One incredibly lucky thing was that the actor who played Booth was the spitting image of ...