It had been exactly a week since the famous actor shot and killed President Abraham ... my leg." John Wilkes Booth was ...

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is probably in the top five of American historical events that is universally known about: ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth ... in his hatred of Abraham Lincoln, whose actions he saw as unconstitutional. By the fall of 1864, Booth had begun plotting to ...

There died in Frankfort last Sunday morning a gentleman, former Delphi resident, who was present at Ford’s theatre, Washington D.C., on that April night fifty years ago, when Wilkes Booth assassinated ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

has just made public a story in which he tells how he warned President Lincoln that he was in danger of being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth five days before the tragedy occurred. View Full ...

On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by assassin John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... Five days later, Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, shot in the back of the head while ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 ... He died on April 15, 1865, shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Wednesday marks what would ...