At one point during his escape, Booth and his partner David Herold were offered shelter by a Confederate soldier named Willie ...

If John Wilkes Booth could have read about himself in Jennifer Chiaverini’s Fates and Traitors, he probably would have believed he was the hero of the story. Booth is the focus of the page-turning, ...

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 ...

Well, those parlor tricks are nothing compared to the appendage stunts pulled by these 10 famous people. John Wilkes Booth might have been a successful assassin, but he was a largely ineffectual ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday, December 20, for a “funeral” for the penny, ...

Hundreds of mock mourners headed to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to attend a “funeral” for the penny. Along with ...