Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth was part of a nine-person conspiracy that also ...

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 ...

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered a single photograph be taken of John Wilkes Booth's corpse, says Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography. Most experts agree that famed ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.