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 ...

As Abraham Lincoln watched the theatre stage, John Wilkes Booth crept from the shadows behind, drew his derringer pistol, and ...

Whether an assassin wants to silence someone over mysterious secrets, act for a cause, or eliminate a rival, the concept ...

I visited the Lincoln Memorial last weekend. The colossal 19-foot statue of Abraham Lincoln loomed above me, looking towards ...

On Good Friday, 1865, a man entered his room in Washington’s National Hotel. He’d be leaving on a one-way trip in a few hours. He filled one pocket with things you’d expect: a ring of keys, a compass, ...

Johnathan “John John” Boley, the 4-year-old boy who went missing on New Year’s Eve, was found dead today in a wooded area near his father’s home in Walker County. Sheriff Nick Smith said there were no ...

WILKES-BARRE — An historic clock, gifted to a Wilkes-Barre priest by America’s 26th president in 1912, has a new home in the city’s oldest surviving home. The Wilkes-Barré Preservation Society and ...