John Wilkes Booth

A killer such as John Wilkes Booth represented a conspiracy and a cause.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Michael Gerson 2011

Neil Cavuto, on Fox News this afternoon, defended his network by arguing that there was no cable bickering in 1865, yet John Wilkes Booth was still mad enough to shoot Abraham Lincoln.

HUFFPOST HILL - Capitol Police Slow To Help Grijlava Eliot Nelson 2011

Heritage Foundation scholar James Swanson -- whose 2006 "Manhunt," about the search for John Wilkes Booth, became a bestseller -- is moving on to another presidential assassination.

In other news: James Swanson pens deal for JFK assassination book 2011

The author of "My Thoughts Be Bloody," a biography of John Wilkes Booth, reads and signs copies of her book at the theater where Booth assassinated President Lincoln.

Free and Easy: Native American music and Latin American art Jess Righthand 2011

Lincoln had indeed issued a pardon to Pvt. Patrick Murphy, but the 16th president did it exactly one year to the day before he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Historian accused of altering Lincoln document at National Archives Lisa Rein 2011

Neil Cavuto, on Fox News this afternoon, defended his network by arguing that there was no cable bickering in 1865, yet John Wilkes Booth was still mad enough to shoot Abraham Lincoln.

HUFFPOST HILL - Capitol Police Slow To Help Grijlava Eliot Nelson 2011

Lincoln was shot April 14, 1865, in Ford's Theatre by actor John Wilkes Booth, who was angry that the South had lost the Civil War.

Items with Lincoln's signature found in vacant Silver Spring house 2011

Five days after Lee surrendered, John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Lincoln.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Had Lincoln not been assassinated on April 14, 1865, medical historians like John Sotos imply, he would have died soon enough without John Wilkes Booth's help.

Five myths about Abraham Lincoln 2011

James L. Swanson finds fresh ground by tightly focusing on the search for John Wilkes Booth—a search that employed thousands of men, horses and dogs.

Manhunt Tales To Track Down Hampton Sides 2011