Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. April 14 marks the 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Everyone is ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

On April 26, 1865, Edward P. Doherty, one of the unheralded heroes of Irish American history, tracked down and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Most people will know the ...

On this day, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The news shocked not just America but the world. “The blow is sudden, horrid, irretrievable,” wrote ...

Scott Soles never met his great-grandfather, but he beams with pride because of what he did at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln.Soles ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean actors has been designated a Harford County Historic Landmark for its ...