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

Matthew Weiner has built his career creating characters who defy the simple definition of either good or bad. His work ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A family from Tennessee visited the Ford's Theatre Museum while in Washington, D.C. Cassie Litton tells PEOPLE her 3-year-old daughter developed an irrational fear of John Wilkes Booth The toddler is ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day — April 14 — in 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Booth injured himself, requiring medical treatment, while a manhunt for him was ...