“John Wilkes was the ninth of ten children born ... he would “make a bad end” and “die young.” The young Booth wrote out the fortune in pencil on a scrap of paper that eventually wore ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. Though his brother John is known for killing President Lincoln, Edwin Booth was a very different man. Here’s why there’s a massive statue of him in New York ...

The remains of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin, wore removed from Washington on Monday afternoon, and arrived here on the same evening. An order was obtained Monday morning, and J. C. WEAVER ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plays about Maryland actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth, monstrous creatures, and mental health will all come to Baltimore ...

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.

John Wilkes Booth – Maryland born, second rate actor, round-the-clock drunk, handsome womanizer, Southern sympathizer, white supremacist, and presidential assassin – is a man every American ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...