Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

April 14 is the 160th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln. What if John Wilkes Booth had chosen reconciliation over ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

John Wilkes Booth was also in the Star Saloon ... Secretary of War Edwin Stanton decided he wanted the crime scene photographed exactly as it was the moment Lincoln was shot.

John Wilkes Booth wanted to do something to help the Confederacy, so, at first, he plotted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. Booth believed that doing so could force the Union to release Confederate ...

Did you know that today, is the day in our country's history that President Abe Lincoln died from the gunshot wound that John Wilkes Booth delivered to him the ... I had it in my mind that I wanted to ...

And the Civil War was a tough time.” I wanted to climb into his lap to tell him I thought John Wilkes Booth was a dick, but that proved to be too challenging so I just shouted it. 4. I threw up in a ...