As an Amazon associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. John Wilkes Booth wasn't originally planning to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Booth and his allies wanted to abduct the 16th ...

Unlike John Wilkes Booth, who spent his life comfortably in the saddle, Northern Irish actor Anthony Boyle had never ridden a horse until he was cast as Abraham Lincoln’s infamous assassin in the new ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

Editor's Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

TV shows don’t get higher stakes than arguably the most consequential tragedy in American history. With one gunshot in a flag-draped balcony box at D.C.’s Ford’s Theatre, the nation’s greatest ...

When most Americans think of the name “Booth” they think of John Wilkes, the infamous assassin who fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. But for much of the 19th century it was ...

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 ...

Monica Beletsky’s limited series for Apple TV+ is Nordic noir meets ‘Fargo,’ as a 12-day chase for assassin John Wilkes Booth is structured as a pre-'CSI' police procedural. By Etan Vlessing Canada ...

After shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a production of "Our American Cousin," John Wilkes Booth lept from the president's balcony seats to the stage below and yelled ...

Did Abraham Lincoln, like John Wilkes Booth, ever find solace in spiritualism? John Wilkes Booth, left. Abraham Lincoln, right.Credit...Library of Congress, Mathew Brady/Library of Congress Supported ...