I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One ...

Robert's rescuer was Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth ... there was no record of Robert Lincoln ever telling his parents about the incident, probably because he thought they had ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...