Cassie Litton's daughter developed a new fear after learning about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John ...

The Tennessee toddler became afraid of John Wilkes Booth after learning about the 16th president's assassination.

Author Karen Joy Fowler thinks John Wilkes Booth craved attention – and that he's gotten his fair share of it. So her new novel, Booth, instead focuses on his family.Their history might surprise ...

John Wilkes Booth wasn’t the best actor in the Booth family: he was outshone by his father, Junius Brutus Booth, and by his brother Edwin. But John Wilkes was the most beautiful of the Booths ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices ... the same Philadelphia family, according to the ...

A major historic tragedy came with an odd and unsettling coincidence attached to it. Few know that the brother of the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was responsible for saving the ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices ... the same Philadelphia family, according to the ...