The Lincoln conspirators who planned to kill President Abe Lincoln wanted to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson and ...

When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down on a ...

Anthony Boyle as John Wilkes Booth in "Manhunt." - Credit: Apple TV+ “Sic semper tyrannis!” With these words John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after shooting Abraham Lincoln in ...

A ‘carte de visite’ photo of ‘The Mysterious Beauty,’ later identified as actress Fanny Brown, one of five found on John Wilkes Booth after he was tracked down and fatally shot 12 days after he ...

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Editor’s note: This column ran October 11, 2012, in the Times-News. History is full of myths and conspiracy theories — and one of these myths pulled into town on the rails and never left.

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean actors has been designated a Harford County Historic Landmark for its ...

Q. A railcar at the Burley museum is reported to have carried the body of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. What's the story? A. "The museum still has this car," Tosha Pincock, curator at the ...

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts presents The John Wilkes Booth High School for the Performing Arts Presents the Most Inclusive, Least Offensive Play Ever: An After School Special by ...