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

When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and ...

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

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 ...

Would John Wilkes Booth have refrained from murdering Lincoln if the young Fox sisters had kept their toes quiet on that seminal night in rural New York? It’s hard to see why. “In the Houses ...

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 ...

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: One Night Only ... he has turned a stock figure into a real human being — a befuddled young man beginning to grow into his potential. “Mad Men” creator and ...