John Wilkes’ 13th birthday on May 10, 1851, was a double celebration of sorts. It was also his parents’ wedding day. The Booth children roamed the forests and farm fields near their log cabin ...

History is full of myths and conspiracy theories — and one of these myths pulled into town on the rails and never left. Shakespearean actor and Confederate secret agent John Wilkes Booth shot ...

Anthony Boyle as John Wilkes Booth in "Manhunt ... the home of Confederate sympathizer Col. Samuel Cox. Other sympathizers then helped Booth and Herold escape from Maryland into Virginia ...

On this day — April 14 — in 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes ... Booth's escape by not alerting the authorities to Booth's presence at his farm.

Leading the ensemble is the flamboyant Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth, father most famously of the celebrated tragedian Edwin; and most infamously of John Wilkes, who abandoned his acting ...

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 ... refuge at the Garrett farm. On April 26, U.S ...