A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. He entered the presidential box at the venue in Washington DC during the third act of Our American Cousin, which the ...
Clarke. It had been exactly a week since the famous actor shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln while he and his wife ...
Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14th, 1865, and he died the next day. Our coverage of the assassination appeared in the issue of April 29th ...
With each presidential assassination ... his wife and friends take in a show at 10:15 pm at Ford's Theater. Booth shoots Lincoln once in the head and then jumps down to the stage, yelling ...
Manhunt isn’t the first bit of 21st Century media to dive into the Lincoln assassination — the ... the build up to that fateful night at Ford’s Theatre and the search for Booth, detailing ...
President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... Witness statements from the assassination and its aftermath are published on the Ford's Theatre website. "I saw a flash of the pistol in the ...