Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...
Eleanor Ruggles, in a prefatory note to her biography of Edwin Booth ("Prince of Players," 1953), described her feelings at hearing two recordings he made in 1890. "For some time I was half afraid to ...
After his brother, John Wilkes, shot Lincoln in April 1865, the tragedy associated with the name Booth forced Edwin to abandon the stage for many months. Edwin, who had been feuding with his brother ...
On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC — jumping from Lincoln’s box, breaking his leg and shouting “Freedom for ...
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