On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...

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 “Freedom for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s directorial play debut puts one of America’s most notorious killers in the ...

The poster advertised cash rewards for Abraham Lincoln's killers.Getty Images/Nate D. Sanders Auctions A "wanted" poster for Abraham Lincoln's killers, including John Wilkes Booth, was sold at auction ...

If Abraham Lincoln had leaned back in his rocking chair that night at Ford’s Theatre and turned around—hearing a footfall or a rustle, or glimpsing, out of the corner of his eye, a stage light ...

A new series transforms the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln into a true crime thriller that goes deeper into the story than most textbooks. Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was ...

“What is it like to love the most hated man in the country?” Everyone is someone's baby, even killers, mass shooters and presidential assassins. How culpable is a family when one of its babies grows ...

Scott Simon asks Karen Joy Fowler about her new historical novel, "Booth," in which she focuses on the parents and siblings of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. I did not want to write a ...

John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. But historian Terry Alford, an expert on all things Booth, says that there's ...

“Sic semper tyrannis!” With these words John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after shooting Abraham Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer on April 14, 1865, altering the ...

When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down on a ...

Nobody is taking a shot at this party. Members of The Players, a storied Gramercy Park social club catering to members of the arts, gathered Saturday in the park to celebrate the 190th birthday of ...