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

By Molly Young When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. BOOTH By Karen ... Three of the brothers, including John, go into the family ...

PHILADELPHIA - In life, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth were brothers, ambitious actors and ... pursued Booth through the yellowing pages of books and period documents. "If the man who killed our ...

Over drinks with his fellow actors in the saloon next to the McVicker Theater in Chicago one afternoon in 1862, John Wilkes Booth announced that a "glorious opportunity" for immortality awaited a ...