John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. But historian Terry Alford, an expert on all things Booth, says that there's ...

A new series transforms the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln into a true crime thriller that goes deeper into the story than most textbooks. Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

As an Amazon associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. John Wilkes Booth wasn't originally planning to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Booth and his allies wanted to abduct the 16th ...

On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC — jumping from Lincoln’s box, breaking his leg and shouting “Freedom for ...

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...

After shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a production of "Our American Cousin," John Wilkes Booth lept from the president's balcony seats to the stage below and yelled ...

The 138-year manhunt continues in this engrossing but tendentious and inconclusive reassessment of Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories. Winkler (The Women in Lincoln's Life) draws on a wealth of ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was attending the play “Our American Cousin” when Booth snuck into his ...

After shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a production of "Our American Cousin," John Wilkes Booth lept from the president's balcony seats to the stage below and yelled ...