Robert's rescuer was Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth. The latter would go on to kill the president in 1865. Edwin Booth was himself a renowned stage actor who would be "overshadowed ...

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.

Cassie Litton's daughter developed a new fear after learning about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just days later, on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by one of America's most popular stage performers—John Wilkes Booth. No American president had been assassinated before.

It’s not uncommon for kids to fear monsters under their bed, but usually the monster isn’t John Wilkes Booth. In an exclusive interview with People on May 11, Tennessee native Cassie Litton ...

“I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” he says. The result is his play “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!,” making its world premiere this week at Baltimore Center Stag ...