Crime: John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the state box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., jumped onto the stage, and escaped...
248 months ago

John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.
115 months ago

Jill Lepore reviews “Manhunt,” a new television miniseries produced by AppleTV+, adapted from “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's...
8 months ago

Being an actor gave John Wilkes Booth the opportunity to murder America's greatest president, but being an actor was also his tragic flaw. Arguably, it got him...
91 months ago

President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865 by assassin John Wilkes Booth.
180 months ago

Many know the history of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, but few are aware of the tremendous effort it took to capture John...
75 months ago

John Wilkes Booth was aided by a network of conspirators who concealed his escape from pursuing Union soldiers.
76 months ago

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he...
80 months ago

When the History Channel needed an expert to help weigh in on the theory that John Wilkes Booth may have survived beyond 1865,...
47 months ago

John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
180 months ago