John Wilkes Booth’s hunger for fame — for remembrance — is understood to have motivated his crime at least as much as his oft-pledged Confederate sympathies did. (The curren ...

I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” is partly inspired by the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Matthew Weiner, creator of the television series “Mad Men,” set his sights on Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in ...

John Wilkes Booth wasn’t the best actor in the Booth family: he was outshone by his father, Junius Brutus Booth, and by his brother Edwin. But John Wilkes was the most beautiful of the Booths ...

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 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 ...

Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was watching a play with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre when Booth came ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...

The celebrated 19th-century Shakespearean actor — whose imposing bronze statue is the park’s centerpiece — is mostly remembered today as the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, who ...

Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was watching a play with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre when Booth came from ...