John’s father was Junius Brutus Booth, son of a British lawyer and grandson of a silversmith, the first of his family to go on stage. “The actor was, of course, quite mad,” observes Gene ...

April 14 marks the 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Everyone is certainly familiar with the story of actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the President in the box ...

Matthew Weiner’s world premiere “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” at Baltimore Center Stage finds an actor turned assassin in conversation with himself.

Family’s fight over legacy of John Wilkes Booth’s doctor revived by true ... Mudd was eventually pardoned for setting Booth’s broken leg, but his grandson was determined to exonerate ...

1838–65 Maryland Actor. 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.

On this day — April 14 — in 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Booth injured himself, requiring medical treatment, while a manhunt for him was ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...

”John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” runs at Baltimore Center Stage, 700 N. Calvert St., through June 22. Tickets cost $10 to $90. For details, call 410-332-0033 or visit centerstage.org.

It tells the story of John Wilkes Booth who in 1865 shot dead President Lincoln, a moderate Republican, during a performance of the English farce Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre, Washington.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after he killed Lincoln, was arrested in 1865 but pardoned in 1869. ... In response to efforts by Mudd's grandson Dr. Richard Mudd, ...

John Wilkes Booth’s brother Edwin honored in NYC birthday ceremony By . Jon Levine. Published Nov. 11, 2023, 10:42 a.m. ET. Edwin Booth's 190th birthday was celebrated by The Players.

Union troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe Lincoln, before finding him in a Virginia barn and killing him on this day in history, April 26, 1865.