Jefferson is reputed to have met John Wilkes Booth in Tamaqua in 1865, where he learned of plans for Lincoln’s assassination and tried in vain to warn authorities. But nobody would believe him.

If You Go ”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 ...

If You Go ”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 ...

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 ...

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 Ford’s Theatre Museum as part of their trip.

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.

John Wilkes Booth was a well-known actor who invested and lost a substantial amount of money in the newly developing Pennsylvania oil industry. He was a native of Maryland, a slave state that the ...

Its cost partially defrayed by the sale of several of his wine businesses, the allegorical drama, littered with allusions to Sappho and “Entertainment Tonight,” John Wilkes Booth and Elvis ...

First, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln before the Blackburn plan had fully unfolded. Second, even if the trunk had ended up in the White House, no one would have caught Yellow Fever.