Abraham Lincoln was slain by a dashing star of the 19th century stage, a man who could have been remembered as the George Clooney of his day. John Wilkes Booth had talent, a look that made ladies ...
After shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a production of "Our American Cousin," John Wilkes Booth lept from the president's balcony seats to the stage below and yelled ...
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 shot the ...
Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...
John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. But historian Terry Alford, an expert on all things Booth, says that there's ...
The most audacious assassin in American history was a much-admired celebrity, the Shakespearean actor John Wilkes Booth, whose most infamous performance occurred on April 14, 1865, when he fatally ...
The Civil War may have officially ended on April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, Virginia, but tensions in the country were still ...
“I cannot be shut up in an iron cage and guarded,” Abraham Lincoln said irritably when his friend Leonard Swett worried that the chief executive’s security was inadequate. A president must go among ...
NEW BEDFORD — The restored old Lincoln Park ticket booth is now installed on Monkey's Island as a gateway for another amusement park — the Altitude H20 water park. Over 20 years, with painstaking ...
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