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 ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean actors has been designated a Harford County Historic Landmark for its ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 12, 2024 Hours after President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre, John Wilkes Booth became one of the most wanted men in the world. For nearly two ...

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 ...

Tom Cavanagh, host of Smithsonian Channel's award winning series "Stories from the Vaults," joins Civil War historian Ed Bearss to retrace John Wilkes Booth's steps in the days surrounding his ...