I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” is ...

On this day in 1865, popular actor John Wilkes Booth, who fatally shot US President Abraham Lincoln, was tracked down and killed by the US troops 12 days later from a Virginia barn. On this day in ...

Just days later, on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by one of America's most popular stage performers—John Wilkes Booth. No American president had been assassinated before.

As the boats lined up to stop his assassin, officials didn’t know that Booth and accomplice David Herold, who’d been hiding in the swamps of southern Maryland, had crossed into Virginia the ...

She was speaking at the sentencing of Jordan Wilkes (29) who was jailed for 30 years today for ... the judge’s comments on the girls’ courage: “This was a horrific knife attack on a defenceless young ...

A Plains Twp. man is accused of threatening an elderly woman with a hunting knife during an argument in Wilkes-Barre on Monday night. Gregory Cierniakoski, 42, is accused of pulling the knife ...

The victim and her friend had been playing on the stairs when Wilkes came out of his flat and approached the two youngsters while concealing a folding pocket knife. He stabbed the victim in the neck, ...

In 1945, Böker built its last knife in the USA out of its factory in New Jersey. Now, 80 years later, the knifemaking brand has finally returned to American manufacturing with a brand-new factory in ...

The victim tried to intervene in the fight, at which point Barry took out a Stanley knife and slashed at the man, cutting his neck. Connar Walter John Barry pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm ...

In retrospect, it’s safe to say that his success was tremendous. The ATC — the original tactical folding knife — is still the benchmark by which other, similar pocket knives are measured. It’s been ...

Karen Stone’s first novel “Shipwreck on the Potomac: Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln’s Killer,” which was published by History Press, an imprint of Arcadia Press, is now on shelves. Get any ...

John Wilkes Booth. That was during the COVID-19 pandemic. The offer was conditioned on Sexton being fully vaccinated. Sexton sought a medical exemption from the vaccine mandate based on his ...