If he were alive today, John Wilkes Booth would have little trouble recognizing the farmhouse of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, where he had come seeking help 136 years ago today. The land surrounding the Sou… ...

In life, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth were brothers, ambitious actors and bitter rivals. They ruthlessly competed for the limelight on stages in Philadelphia and across the nation.

Tuesday was the 150th anniversary of one of the most significant events in history, with its roots deep in Harford County. On April 14, 1865 — just days after the conclusion of major hostilit… ...

Tobias Menzies stars in "Manhunt," a seven-episode Apple TV+ drama which tracks the pursuit of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

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 s… ...

John Wilkes Booth hid from federal troops for 12 days after he shot President Abraham Lincoln. And Green Mount Cemetery officials in Baltimore say Mr. Booth has been hiding from them for most of ...

Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth was still on the run, and it was only natural to wonder if he might be hiding in York County, where he had spent time in his younger years.

All was quiet, too, in the tobacco barn, where John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator David Herold were sleeping. The barking dogs and the clanking, rumbling sound finally woke Booth.

John Wilkes Booth wasn't originally planning to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

Instead, Bates wrote a book called “The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth — Written for the Correction of History” and put the mummy on tour.

In the summer of 1864, as Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was cutting a scorched path through Georgia, John Wilkes Booth was becoming increasingly radicalized in anti-Union fervor.

History is full of myths and conspiracy theories — and one of these myths pulled into town on the rails and never left. Shakespearean actor and Confederate secret agent John Wilkes Booth shot ...