Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished ... By the fall of 1864, Booth had begun plotting to kidnap the president and hold him in exchange for the release ...

Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who lived 25 miles south of Washington near Waldorf, Maryland. After Mudd set his ...

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

The remains of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin, wore removed from Washington on Monday afternoon, and arrived here on the same evening. An order was obtained Monday morning, and J. C. WEAVER ...

Scholars have “delighted” in the slender book, says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth expert in Virginia, because it remains the only manuscript of significant length that provides insightful ...

Where did you shoot the recreations? Most were shot in southern Maryland or Virginia, in the same places that John Wilkes Booth escaped during his 12 day run. For example, when we were shooting ...

John Wilkes Booth knew he had to act quickly to save the South. But his original plan wasn't to kill Lincoln—it was to kidnap him Need a New Organ? Surgeon Anthony Atala Sees a Future Where You ...