Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

In the mid-19th century, Edwin Booth was widely regarded as America's greatest Shakespearean actor. But today, the ...

Everyone is certainly familiar with the story of actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the President in the box seats at Ford’s Theatre, resulting in his death the following morning. But what ...

The cause of free speech has produced some unlikely champions, but none more so than the 18th-century libertine John Wilkes. By all accounts he was an unsavoury character but for all his flaws he ...

One hundred sixty years ago tonight, at Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth put a bullet in the head of President Abraham Lincoln. What motivated the 26-year-old actor? Fame? No, he had plenty of ...

There's never a dull moment with John Kruk in the Philadelphia Phillies' broadcast booth. Tom McCarthy is the longtime play-by-play voice for the Phillies, sitting alongside Kruk who provides ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Five days after the end of the Civil War, the joy of peace was shattered when John Wilkes Booth and his gang of followers put into motion a plan to “decapitate ...

NOW THE FATE OF A TRIAD AREA RESCUE SQUAD IS VERY MUCH UP IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW. WILKES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARE HOLDING A PIVOTAL MEETING, THEIR FIRST TO DETERMINE WHETHER VOLUNTEER FIRST ...

At about 10:15 p.m., John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, entered Lincoln’s private box, and, at a moment of laughter in the play, fired his pistol at the president from two feet away.

Why did the British Parliament insist on taxing their colonial citizens, ignoring the counsel of knowledgeable members who knew the American mind, such as John Wilkes and Isaac Barre, who ...