When President Abraham Lincoln's assassin was tracked down and fatally shot, among the items found on him was a daybook diary ...

Anthony Boyle as John Wilkes Booth in "Manhunt." - Credit: Apple TV+ “Sic semper tyrannis!” With these words John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after shooting Abraham ...

Union troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe Lincoln, before finding him in a Virginia barn and killing him on this day in history, April 26, 1865.

On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC — jumping from Lincoln’s box, breaking his leg and shouting ...

Stanton’s search ripples out far further than just the hunt for John Wilkes Booth. As Manhunt Episode 1 reveals, Lincoln’s death was just one assassination planned that night.

John Wilkes Booth wasn't originally planning to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. ... Historian William Marvel believed it was Stanton's steadiness that made starting the manhunt possible that night.

They say that the mummy made more money on tour than John Wilkes Booth ever did as an actor. Eventually, the mummy — affectionately known as “John” — was leased to William Evans, the ...

We are introduced to both of them on April 15, 1865, just hours before the moment Booth will shoot the president from behind in a box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Lincoln (Hamish ...

For two generations, from the 1840s to the 1880s, Long Branch was a favorite summer haunt and second home for the family of actor John Wilkes Booth, Lepis wrote.

A Confederate sympathizer, Booth relied on a network of supporters to help him hide. Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War, led the search by the Army to track Lincoln's killer down.

”John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” runs at Baltimore Center Stage, 700 N. Calvert St., through June 22. Tickets cost $10 to $90. For details, call 410-332-0033 or visit centerstage.org.