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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The handsome younger Booth had received strong reviews in a New York production of “Richard III” with the New York Herald ...

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 ...

What were you afraid of as a kid? 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 ...

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More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the more notable of those warring siblings were the actors Edwin Booth and his ...

John Booth Jr. VIRGINIA BEACH – John Booth Jr., 74, of the 3700 block of Kings Point Circle, passed away Oct. 10, 2008, in his home. He was retired from the U.S. Army. He was a chairman of the Deacon ...

John Wilkes Booth, holding a cane, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, location unknown. Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., on April 14, 1865. (AP Photo ...