Matthew Weiner, creator of the television series “Mad Men,” set his sights on Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in an attempt to understand why people do terrible things.

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

The creator of "Mad Men" is behind a new play running in Baltimore about John Wilkes Booth. Why it matters: Matthew Weiner ...

Gosnell, George W. Huntington, and Christopher Farley. They were the only casualties in the search for John Wilkes Booth. This is their story. The assassination of President Lincoln on April 14 ...

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 ...

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.

Cassie Litton What were you afraid of as a kid? For Lainey Litton, it's John Wilkes Booth. Cassie Litton and her family were in Washington, D.C. for Thanksgiving when they decided to visit the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We open on the Booth family kids rehearsing Julius Caesar (a motif that runs through the play) with John Wilkes Booth already displaying narcissistic tendencies in kids’ squabbles. That changes when ...

As the series wraps on Apple TV+ we look at the real history of John Wilkes Booth's final days. What's true and what's fiction? They were as most of the days of his life had been — marred by the ...