I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One ...

The Tennessee toddler became afraid of John Wilkes Booth after learning about the 16th president's assassination.

Mad Men” creator and Maryland native Matthew Weiner talks about writing his first play, "John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!“ ...

to be unready for such a gentle portrait of the president’s killer. University Press of Mississippi republished the memoir in 1996 as John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir, with an ...

Cassie Litton What were you afraid of as a kid? For Lainey Litton, it's John Wilkes Booth. Cassie Litton and her family were in Washington, D.C. for Thanksgiving when they decided to visit the ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...

The remains of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin, wore removed from Washington on Monday afternoon, and arrived here on the same evening. An order was obtained Monday morning, and J. C. WEAVER ...

John Wilkes Booth – Maryland born, second rate actor, round-the-clock drunk, handsome womanizer, Southern sympathizer, white supremacist, and presidential assassin – is a man every American ...

Just days later, on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by one of America's most popular stage performers—John Wilkes Booth. No American president had been assassinated before.