Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 “Manhunt” star Anthony Boyle, who plays John Wilkes Booth, tells us what it took to ride a horse with one good leg and jump off a balcony to kill President ...

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On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC — jumping from Lincoln’s box, breaking his leg and shouting “Freedom for ...

On this day, 156 years ago, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play at Washington, D.C.'s Ford Theater John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was a Confederate sympathizer and hoped to throw ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s directorial play debut puts one of America’s most notorious killers in the ...

John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. But historian Terry Alford, an expert on all things Booth, says that there's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before he was known around the world as the man who pulled the trigger in the balcony of Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, on ...

If Abraham Lincoln had leaned back in his rocking chair that night at Ford’s Theatre and turned around—hearing a footfall or a rustle, or glimpsing, out of the corner of his eye, a stage light ...

When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down on a ...

Scott Simon asks Karen Joy Fowler about her new historical novel, "Booth," in which she focuses on the parents and siblings of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. I did not want to write a ...