John Wilkes Booth’s hunger for fame — for remembrance — is understood to have motivated his crime at least as much as his oft ...

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

Matthew Weiner, creator of the television series “Mad Men,” set his sights on Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in ...

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 ...

makes his playwriting debut with John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!, an audacious look at the notorious man buried in an unmarked grave less than a mile from Baltimore Center Stage.

John Wilkes Booth, left. Abraham Lincoln ... a man who held funerals for pigeons and once dug up his daughter’s grave and attempted to revive her by sucking out her “impure” blood.

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...

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 ...

The celebrated 19th-century Shakespearean actor — whose imposing bronze statue is the park’s centerpiece — is mostly remembered today as the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, who ...

Lincoln's funeral scene in Manhunt reveals Mary Todd Lincoln's grief and connection with Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth. Edwin Booth's true heroic act of saving Robert Lincoln's life ...

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...