More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the ...

It’s not uncommon for kids to fear monsters under their bed, but usually the monster isn’t John Wilkes Booth. In an exclusive interview with People on May 11, Tennessee native Cassie Litton ...

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

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 ...

A family from Tennessee visited the Ford's Theatre Museum while in Washington, D.C. Cassie Litton tells PEOPLE her 3-year-old daughter developed an irrational fear of John Wilkes Booth The toddler is ...

Taylor, a board member of Historic Port Royal and a member of the Surratt Society, shared the spotlight with Carolyn Davis, president of Historic Port Royal; James Hare of the Virginia Department ...

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.

Everyone is certainly familiar with the story of actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the President in the box seats at Ford’s Theatre, resulting in his death the following morning. But what ...

James finished with 18 points on the night and now sits at 10,603 points in his Lakers career, jumping ahead of Wilkes who scored 10,601 in eight seasons with the Lakers from 1977-to-1985.

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 ...

We open on the Booth family kids rehearsing Julius Caesar (a motif that runs through the play) with John Wilkes Booth already displaying narcissistic tendencies in kids’ squabbles. That changes when ...