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John Wilkes's Life of Liberty and Celebrity – Max Skjönsberg

Law & Liberty
Robin Eagles explains why in a new, absorbing biography, Champion of English Freedom: The Life of John Wilkes, MP and Lord Mayor of London—the...
4 months ago

The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On

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

The forgotten man who almost became President after Lincoln

The National Constitution Center
On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from his assassin's wounds. But if John Wilkes Booth's plot were entirely successful,...
7 months ago

Why Did John Wilkes Booth Kill Abraham Lincoln? And How Was He Caught? The Real History Of Manhunt

HistoryExtra
On 14 April 1865, an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth entered Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, not to perform but to murder the president of the United...
8 months ago

John Wilkes - Radical, Politician, Activist

Britannica
John Wilkes - Radical, Politician, Activist: For the next four years Wilkes pursued a profligate career on the Continent, chiefly in Paris,...
1 month ago

‘Manhunt’: Inside the Real Pursuit to Capture John Wilkes Booth

Biography
The new Apple TV+ show dramatizes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's search for John Wilkes Booth after he murdered President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
8 months ago

Family’s fight over legacy of John Wilkes Booth’s doctor revived by true crime series, ‘Manhunt’

MLive.com
The Mudd family has spent decades trying to clear Dr. Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg and went to prison after a military commission conviction.
8 months ago

Watch The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth

History.com
It was the largest manhunt in history–ten thousand federal troops, detectives and police hunted those responsible for the assassination of President Abraham...
10 months ago

'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class

AP News
A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the...
8 months ago

Anthony Boyle Has a Face for Period Dramas

Town & Country Magazine
Anthony Boyle is firmly at home in the world of period dramas. "Someone said that I got a face that can't comprehend the internet," he jokes...
8 months ago