This is the story of Edwin Booth, the famous brother of the infamous assassin John Wilkes Booth. Growing Up In An Acting ...

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 ...

Scholars have “delighted” in the slender book, says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth expert in Virginia ... never carried in his pocket a bullet meant for Lincoln. She repeatedly defended ...

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 ...

Just days later, on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by one of America's most popular stage performers—John Wilkes Booth. No American president had been assassinated before.

Doherty, one of the unheralded heroes of Irish American history, tracked down and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes ... bullet lodged in his brain. As he plummeted through the air ...