When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, history quickly fixed its attention on Booth himself.

Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and heard the ...

WILKESBORO — Brittany Nicholson, a first-generation college student and sophomore in WCC’s Radiography program, has been named the 2025–2026 recipient of the John N. Bennett Scholarship. Nicholson, ...

Sixty-two years ago, on Nov. 22, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The event changed America — not only the course of history, but the nation’s character and outlook. Americans still wonder ...

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 ...

Attorney John H. Doran, 89, of Hanover Township, passed away on Saturday, November 8, 2025. Born December 13, 1935 in Hanover Township he was a son of the late Henry and Anna Sabalesky Doran. John ...

Countless books, TV shows, and films have been produced about the likes of presidential assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. But Charles Guiteau isn’t exactly remembered the same way—in ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Highlighting the life and works of a celebrated author in Luzerne County Thursday evening. Wilkes University is hosting the 22nd annual Norman Mailer Society conference, "What ...

The suspect accused of ramming a car into a metal gate at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office quoted Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth during his confession, a special agent revealed in a ...

The man accused of ramming his car into an FBI security gate early Wednesday wanted to “make a statement,” the bureau said in its arrest affidavit. Donald Henson, 46, allegedly drove his car into the ...

A little under ninety days after President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, four of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators — Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt — ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man who rammed a car into an FBI security gate in Pittsburgh and covered it in an American flag Wednesday later said he did it to “make a statement,” the FBI said. Donald Phillip ...