John Wilkes ... Booth shrieked, “Let me pass, or I’ll kill!” Withers, stupid with terror, froze. Booth sprang at him with a bloody dagger. The blade never broke Withers’ skin, but one ...

The result is his play “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only ... the theater’s producing director. “My skin literally gets goose bumps when I think about some of the lines in the play.

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 ...

A new, seven-part series on Apple TV+ unfolds like a period-piece Columbo. First John Wilkes Booth plans and commits the murder, then the lead investigator deciphers clues to catch the elusive killer.

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 ...

Monica Beletsky’s limited series for Apple TV+ is Nordic noir meets ‘Fargo,’ as a 12-day chase for assassin John Wilkes Booth is structured as a pre-'CSI' police procedural. By Etan Vlessing ...

Days after shooting president Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play in a Washington theatre, John Wilkes Booth was surrounded by Union troops inside a barn on a Virginia farm. When he refused to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A statue of John Wilkes Booth has been removed from outside of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in the Illinois capital of Springfield. Spokesman ...

It was named after an earlier theater which was named for actor Edwin Booth, who happened to be the brother of John Wilkes Booth. This intimate auditorium was intended for small dramatic plays or ...

“Booth,” chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes of the titular family, as in John Wilkes Booth. The novel is narrated in the third person from the perspective of three of 10 Booth ...

John Wilkes Booth leans forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches a play at Ford's Theatre in 1865. (c) Corbis When a celebrity-seeking couple crashed a White House state dinner ...

The shape of John Wilkes Booth's story, unfortunately, is a familiar one in our time. As is the response of his mother, Mary Ann, dramatized by Jennifer Chiaverini in her new historical novel ...