The deeper you dig into the death of John Wilkes Booth, the harder it becomes to ignore the possibility that the man killed ...

John Wilkes Booth carried photos of four women on the night he shot Lincoln. One remained unidentified for decades. Here's ...

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 ...

“What is it like to love the most hated man in the country?” Everyone is someone's baby, even killers, mass shooters and presidential assassins. How culpable is a family when one of its babies grows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before he was known around the world as the man who pulled the trigger in the balcony of Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, on ...

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

If Abraham Lincoln had leaned back in his rocking chair that night at Ford’s Theatre and turned around—hearing a footfall or a rustle, or glimpsing, out of the corner of his eye, a stage light ...

They were, arguably, the most influential criminal gang in American history: Booth’s shooting of Lincoln, on April 14, 1865, not only deprived the country of its president, it ushered in Andrew ...

Scott Simon asks Karen Joy Fowler about her new historical novel, "Booth," in which she focuses on the parents and siblings of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. I did not want to write a ...