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

It was named after an earlier theater which was named for actor Edwin Booth, who happened to be the brother of John Wilkes Booth. This intimate auditorium was intended for small dramatic plays or ...

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 ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an ... would attend a play at Ford's Theatre that evening. During the play's third act, Booth entered the presidential box and ...

John Wilkes Booth – Maryland born, second rate actor, round-the-clock drunk, handsome womanizer, Southern sympathizer, white supremacist, and presidential assassin – is a man every American ...

Lincoln’s visit to the theater signaled the “fall of the ... University Press of Mississippi republished the memoir in 1996 as John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir, with an introduction ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...

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

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well ... by James Gifford who also built Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Lincoln ...