How Old Is Too Old To Be President May 29, 2008
In 1865, Abraham Lincoln was 56 years old when John Wilkes Booth shot him in Ford s Theater. James Garfield was 49 years old when he was shot on July 2, 1881. (Suite101.com)
Lincoln exhibit makes a one-day stop in Abilene May 15, 2008
At the end, we see the Booth Theatre, an exhibit on John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, J and his 13 funerals, as he made his way back to Illinois after his death in 1865. The exhibit easily tracks Lincoln's life and includes replicas of maps, family photographs, books, a ticking clock from his Illinois law office, information about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which propelled Lincoln into the national spotlight. (Abilene Recorder Chronicle)
Could 'Honest Abe' be a Tar Heel? Apr 20, 2008
Dr. Samuel Mudd, the man who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth after the assassination and who served prison time for conspiracy, was the victim of a ruthless federal government. Said Steers: "In my opinion, he is the most key conspirator of Booth's and was with him from the very beginning.". (News & Observer)
Rising stars in visual arts Apr 18, 2008
He began with Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth - only in this world, Booth attempts to manufacture oil using plankton, and he has an arm amputated. "My dad was a military commander," says Froslie. (Boston Globe)
Infotainment Apr 15, 2008
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth. 1871 Wild Bill Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
This Day in History Apr 15, 2008
Today s Highlight: In 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford s Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning. (Montana Standard, MT)
'Leftovers' swamp box-office Apr 11, 2008
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Hey, Kool-Aid Mar 9, 2008
If we could wire up 1865 with today's technology, we might find some good old boys trading jokes about Lincoln's assassination, and hawking T-shirts reading "Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?". Or maybe not. (Boston Globe)
The Assassins Among Us: An Unspoken Fear Stalks the Presidential Hustings Mar 6, 2008
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald are the best known of the four assassins, and decades after their deeds arguments still rage over what conspiracies, if any, led to the events at Ford's Theater in Washington and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas ... John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald are the best known of the four assassins, and decades after their deeds arguments still rage over what conspiracies, if any, led to the events at Ford's Theater in Washington and the Texas... (Townhall.com)
Whither Shakespeare? He's backeth, baby! Mar 6, 2008
And who would have predicted that, in the Internet age, Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth would be friends. They'll add you as their friends, too after all, that's what MySpace is all about. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Fun facts about leap years Feb 29, 2008
" Lambeau Leap - Scoring players for the Green Bay Packers football team celebrate by hurling their bodies into the fans with endzone seats at Lambeau Field. The first player to execute a Lambeau Leap was Leroy Butler in 1990, according to packerfantours.com. His running score followed Reggie White recovering a Raider fumble and tossing the ball to him on the run. "Quantum Leap" - Scott Bakula played the main character, scientist Sam Beckett, during the popular TV series called "Quantum Leap,"... (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Lincoln revival keeps reviving Feb 29, 2008
In 1864, John Wilkes Booth, the actor later turned assassin, attempted to kidnap Lincoln at the nearby Campbell Hospital, but the president unexpectedly never showed up ... It should reopen in February 2009 when visitors can once again see the presidential booth where John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
COLUMN: The bloody drift's bill was paid in the blood of Sphinx-like Lincoln Feb 19, 2008
kilroyscarnival wrote on Feb 18, 2008 3:35 PM:" How on earth could any journalist name the wrong Booth brother as the assassin and would-be kidnapper of Abraham Lincoln? Edwin Booth was a Union supporter and had met President Lincoln. His brother John Wilkes Booth plotted to kidnap, then kill, Lincoln. I'm shocked at this error. Ann Carrigan Jacksonville, Florida ". kilroyscarnival wrote on Feb 18, 2008 3:38 PM:" I'm shocked that an editor would not know that John Wilkes Booth, and not Edwin... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'... and will, to the best of my ability ...' - Come up with answers to questions about the Muscatine area's presidential past Feb 19, 2008
John Henry Stevenson, a man who spent his final days with the Brandt sisters, Clara and Emma, donors of the land for Wild Cat Den State Park, claimed his true identity was Michael O Laughlen, a lifelong acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Stevenson was imprisoned by federal authorities for his part in a conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln, a plot that eventually led to Lincoln s assassination. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Letter with Lincoln ties on display Feb 18, 2008
Surratt, a 40-ish woman with heavy eyelids and hair severely parted down the middle, was a co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, who, of course, assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Holt served Lincoln as the Army s judge advocate general. (Elizabethtown News Enterprise, KY)
Where to celebrate Lincoln's birthday Feb 17, 2008
The National Historic Site at 511 10th St. N.W. known as Ford's Theatre -- where President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the theater with wife Mary-- is closed until winter 2009 because of a major renovation. The same goes for the museum on the lower level, in which artifacts relating to the assassination of our 16th president (including the Derringer revolver Booth used to kill Lincoln and Dr. Mudd's medical kit) are displayed. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Read on... Feb 16, 2008
Joan Rivers - Entertainment News, Web Exclusive, Media - Variety. Eye on the Oscars: Oscar Wrap. (Variety)
Lincoln museum builds upon success as 200th birthday nears Feb 12, 2008
One life-sized scene shows pistol-wielding assassin John Wilkes Booth creeping into the theater box where Lincoln and his wife are cuddling. In another, a faux-television production studio shows news coverage of the 1860 as if it was happening in a modern day TV studio. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Celebrating Lincoln Feb 12, 2008
A man named John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln with a type of gun called a derringer, which was very small and held one bullet. Lincoln was watching a play at the time, a not-so-funny comedy called "Our American Cousin.". (The Daily Reflector)
Lincoln celebration kicks off today Feb 12, 2008
after his assassination by John Wilkes Booth. More than a million people lined the train tracks as the slain president's body went by, Long said. (The Daily Reflector)
President Honors Abrahama Lincoln Feb 11, 2008
He was assassinated on April 15, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. The historic theater annually awards its Lincoln Medal to those who exemplify the legacy and character of Lincoln through their body of work. (Fox News)
1864 Lincoln carriage to return to public display Feb 7, 2008
The carriage was believed to have been presented to Lincoln as a gift by the Wood family in late 1864, just a few months before the president was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington. After Lincoln's death, the carriage was inherited by his son, Robert Todd Lincoln. (USA Today -- Travel)
Lincoln's cottage in Washington will open to public for first time Feb 1, 2008
And Lincoln's eventual assassin, John Wilkes Booth, had planned an abduction, but it was never carried out. Curators are expecting plenty of Lincoln enthusiasts to make their way to the home, and they're hoping more documents and details about the home will be uncovered as more people hear about the site. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Camelot Theatre Company presents: Sockdology Feb 1, 2008
A darkly comedic look at John Wilkes Booth ... During the performance, John Wilkes Booth sneaks into the Presidential box, kills Lincoln with a single shot, then leaps onto the stage and flees. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
Colorful Col. had fertile imagination Jan 12, 2008
He also claimed that during his childhood he witnessed Lincoln's first inaugural address and watched John Wilkes Booth play Hamlet. He often wore a bright red shirt that he said was a memento of his involvement in the Red Shirt Brigade fighting carpetbaggers and scalawags in Reconstruction-era South Carolina. (Webster Progress-Times, MS)
At the movies Jan 11, 2008
National Treasure: Book of Secrets Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth s diary. (PG for some violence and action. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
No Separation of Church and Screen Jan 10, 2008
Nicholas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates gives patriotic talks and risks death to prove that an ancestor was not a John Wilkes Booth co-conspirator. Binding up the nation's wounds also leads to a binding up of familial wounds: Gates' estranged parents reunite, he and his estranged girlfriend reunite, and even the southern partisan bad guy turns out to have a noble streak. (Townhall.com)
Get with it, Surfer Girl Jan 6, 2008
The sequel finds him on another preposterous treasure hunt: Ben is investigating the murder of Abraham Lincoln, in part to prove that his great-grandfather was not a co-conspirator with John Wilkes Booth. As a sidelight, the search involves finding the City of Gold, which, it turns out, is hidden near Mt. Rushmore. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Capsule reviews of feature films Dec 30, 2007
Nicolas Cage returns as the galavanting historian, this time digging for clues in the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. An impressive cast Bruce Greenwood, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Diane Kruger, Helen Mirren and Jon Voight is wasted. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
National Treasure sequel one wild ride Dec 29, 2007
Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth assassinated ol Abe or did he. - advertisement. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
'Knight of the Natchez Trace' remains an enigma Dec 27, 2007
Among them were that he watched John Wilkes Booth play Hamlet, witnessed Lincoln's first inaugural address, served in the Civil War, was entertained by the Russian czar in St. Petersburg and was shipwrecked on the coast of Mozambique. Much of Walton's life was told from his perspective, Elliott noted, and while he usually found no corroboration for his claims, he could not dispute them either. (Webster Progress-Times, MS)
Drama and alien action Dec 23, 2007
Apparently, the long-lost pages from the diary of John Wilkes Booth Lincolns assassin implicate Thomas Gates as a co-conspirator. In order to clear Thomas name (and find some treasure), Ben reunites with his old friend, tech whiz Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), and Chase. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
National Treasure Dec 22, 2007
That the holders of this information involved John Wilkes Booth and a Confederate secret society named the Knights of the Golden Circle. And that almost exactly the same people who tracked down the buried treasure in the first movie are involved in this one. (Albany Times Union)
National Treasure: Book Of Secrets Dec 21, 2007
In this case, it's that John Wilkes Booth kept a diary, before and after he shot President Abraham Lincoln. Some of its pages are missing and no one knows why. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Book of Secrets' is for 'Treasure' hunters Dec 21, 2007
This tale focuses on a missing page in the diary of John Wilkes Booth that implicates Ben's great-grandfather in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Ben is hell-bent on restoring his ancestor's reputation and endures a series of close calls and near-escapes to do so. (USA Today)
First time for everything Dec 21, 2007
In this latest instalment of National Treasure, treasure hunter Ben Gates (Cage) and his father, professor Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), are stunned to learn that one of the long-lost pages from the diary of President Lincolns assassin, John Wilkes Booth, resurfaces and implicates their ancestor, Thomas Gates, as a co-conspirator. Their quest to uncover the truth, along with Bens ex-girlfriend Abigail Chase (Kruger) and tech wizard Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) takes them on a globe-trotting... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Treasure sequel finds only fools gold Dec 21, 2007
This time, he and dad Patrick (Voight) are stung by an accusation that an ancestor was a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The claim is backed by a long-missing page from Booths diary produced by Mitch Wilkinson (Harris), a man with an ax to grind about his own family legacy. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Load Of Cryptology Dec 21, 2007
I'm not a SUBTLE actor, and if you want a subtle movie, GET OUT OF MY FACE. This one's about how my character, Benjamin Franklin Gates, learns that an ancestor collided with the John Wilkes Booth gang, who wanted him to decipher a page from Booth's diary that may have been part of a TREASURE MAP.. I have to FIND IT because that will clear my great-great-grandfather of taking part in the Lincoln assassination. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Nicolas Cage Finds 'National Treasure' To Be 'Wonderfully Absurd' Dec 19, 2007
Nicolas Cage: Well, personally, I like the subject matter more on "Book of Secrets." I'm interested in the Civil War, and the history of John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln, and the assassination conspiracy potentially around that. The idea of Confederate gold, to me, is more dramatic. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Nicolas Cage is king of his castle Dec 13, 2007
Added to the cast for the sequel is Helen Mirren as Ben's mother and Patrick's long-estranged wife; and Ed Harris as a black market antiquities dealer who brings a long-lost page from the diary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth to Ben's attention. The page implicates an ancestor of Ben's in the Lincoln assassination and the search for historical truth widens to a hunt for perhaps the most mysterious book on Earth and, from that, to a famed mythological treasure. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
DVD watch: Three from 'Ford at Fox' Dec 11, 2007
He got out of the gate deftly with Prisoner, about controversial Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), sent to prison after setting the leg of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. As the DVD's documentary notes, the film displays some parallels with today when we see prisoners led around with masks over their faces. (USA Today -- Life)
Holiday season offers a wealth of popcorn flicks Dec 1, 2007
Nicolas Cage trots the globe with the same principle cast from the first film as he tries to find the truth behind the Lincoln assassination by tracking down the missing pages in the diary of John Wilkes Booth. The sheer fun of the original is enough to inspire interest here. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Turner Classic Movies Honors Legendary American Director John Ford With Two-Day Ford at Fox Prime-Time Festival Nov 30, 2007
9:45 p.m. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) - Warner Baxter plays the famed Dr. Samuel Mudd, who innocently treated John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This outstanding drama features one of the most memorable depictions of Lincoln's assassination ever put on film. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Author will sign books Saturday at Cressler's Weis Market in Shippensburg Nov 16, 2007
It is O Connor s contention that if Lamon had been at Ford s Theater on Good Friday, 1865, he would have killed John Wilkes Booth. Lamon was not at Ford s Theater and had told Lincoln not to go. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Wallace's Shooter Released From Prison Nov 10, 2007
In his diary, he likened himself to President Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth, and said he, too, wanted "to do something bold and dramatic.". Wallace, a fiery segregationist during the 1960s, was wounded along with Zarvos and two others on May 15, 1972, during a campaign stop in Laurel, Md. (Newsmax)
Twins tour in Tony-winning musical Nov 9, 2007
Earlier in their careers, they were cast in the off-Broadway production of "The Brothers Booth," the story of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. They also helped write and develop sketches for the show. (The News-Herald)
Johnny Depp, Will Smith, Half-Naked Angelina Jolie Ready To Heat Up Winter Box Office Nov 2, 2007
I suppose that would make me want to solve another worldwide conspiracy this time by kidnapping the president, breaking into Buckingham Palace and stealing 18 missing pages from the diary of John Wilkes Booth too. Movie: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story". (VHI.com -- Music News)
Early Boston Oct 27, 2007
As a kid, I read a book about the Lincoln assassination and the ensuing hunt for his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The man who shot and killed Booth was Boston Corbett, a Union soldier during the Civil War. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Stage being set for overhaul of Ford's Theatre Oct 27, 2007
As part of the plans' unveiling, the theater put on a one-act play called "One Destiny," which depicts how the audience and actors might have reacted when Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. The theater, which has already received $8. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
More of this story Oct 26, 2007
Seward, then secretary of state, was nearly killed by Lewis Powell on April 14, 1865 the same evening Lincoln was gunned down by one of Powell's co-conspirators, John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theatre. Seward was living at a house on LaFayette Square in Washington, D.C., huddled in bed trying to recover from a carriage accident. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Replica of Abraham Lincoln's coffin comes to Suffolk Oct 19, 2007
President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending a performance at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The president was taken across the street to a house, where he died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. According to information distributed by Batesville Casket Company with the coffins, it was the ensuing events that paved the way for modern funerals. (Suffolk News Herald, VA)
Walt Disney Pictures Launches 'The World's Biggest Treasure Hunt' for Highly Anticipated Holiday Event Film NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS Oct 17, 2007
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben's great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
From Buster's Law to sex case Oct 3, 2007
Violence toward animals has been an early warning sign in the lives of some of the country's most notorious killers -- from John Wilkes Booth to Jeffrey Dahmer, Lockwood said. The links between killing cats, seen as a female symbol, and eventual sexual violence against women are well-established, said Louis B. Schlesinger, a professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. (Albany Times Union)
Licking history Oct 2, 2007
On hand for Mr. Swanson's gathering was a representative from Scholastic Books, who told Inside the Beltway that the world's largest publisher and distributor of books for young readers would be condensing Manhunt the biggest page-turner ever written surrounding the escape, search and capture of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth into a children's story. Earlier, we reported that an HBO mini-series is in the works based on Mr. Swanson's best-seller. (Townhall.com)
In the land of Lincoln Oct 2, 2007
The book was published in 1866, the year after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln. "I try to buy books published before 1920 because they're more likely to have firsthand knowledge of him.". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
In the lush land of the Finger Lakes Sep 19, 2007
And you can see the bloody remnants of Seward's bed sheets from the night of April 14, 1865, when an associate of John Wilkes Booth burst into his Washington home and tried, but failed, to assassinate him as part of a larger plot to bring down the Union government. Moving from history to ornithology, we were equally enthralled by the world-famous bird lab at Cornell, which operates an excellent visitor center. (CNN -- Travel)
Museum packs up clothes in which Lincoln was slain Sep 9, 2007
One by one, Gloria Swift, a Civil War expert and the curator of the museum, opened the acid-free boxes in which she and others had packed the clothes Lincoln was wearing when he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Wearing white cotton gloves, she carefully removed the layers of white tissue in which the articles were placed. (Boston Globe)
On the whole, I’d rather be ... Sep 6, 2007
Some of the items on view are hundreds of skulls, a plaster cast of the original Siamese twins; Chang and Eng; a cancerous growth removed from the body of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln; and a collection of 2,000 items removed from patients throats. It s hard to decide what is weirder, the museum or the people who come to see it. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
An important 38.5 seconds Sep 3, 2007
John Wilkes Booth took out Lincoln, Leon Czolgosz got McKinley, Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald shot John Kennedy, and Charles Guiteau slew Garfield. Giuseppe aimed at Franklin Roosevelt, but got Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak instead. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Democrat Gerald Connelly Seeks Another Term Sep 1, 2007
Newspaper online, Chronicle Newspapers, The Chronicle, The Fairfax Chronicle, The South County Chronicle, The North County Chronicle, Virginia, Lorton, Mason Neck, Fairfax Station, South Springfield, Clifton, Newington. An Independent Newspaper. (South County Chronicle, VA)
* World News Quick Take Sep 1, 2007
UNITED STATES Remains on display Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, president Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical Assassins opens in Philadelphia. Theatergoers will also be able view a piece of the brain of the lesser-known presidential assassin Charles Guiteau, the man who killed president James Garfield in 1881. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Real remnants of Lincoln, Garfield assassins to be on display in musical’s lobby Aug 31, 2007
PHILADELPHIA Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln s killer, will be on display when the musical Assassins opens in Philadelphia. In fact, it will be a twin bill: theatergoers will also be able view a piece of the brain of the lesser-known presidential assassin Charles Guiteau, the man who killed President James A. Garfield in 1881. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
The Mutter Assassins Go to the Theater! Aug 31, 2007
A portion of the brain of Charles Guiteau (President Garfield's assassin) and a portion of the thorax region of John Wilkes Booth (President Lincoln's assassin) will travel from the museum's home on 22nd street to the Arden Theatre where they will be on display in the Haas Lobby before the performance ... This is the first time that any portion of John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor in his own right, will attend a theatrical performance since that fateful evening in 1865. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
There's No Stopping Canada's Housing Market Aug 23, 2007
"The latest resale data again show precisely zero signs of a let-up. Absent the credit market turmoil, the Bank would surely be tightening again in September but that's like saying absent John Wilkes Booth, Abe would surely have enjoyed the play. However, the strength in domestic demand shows why the Bank would be extremely reluctant to cut rates in the event of deeper trauma in the credit markets.". CMHC says that one, three and five-year posted mortgage rates will be in the 6 to 7, 6. (RealtyTimes)
Mr. Bonaparte, we have bad news ... Aug 23, 2007
John Wilkes Booth's neck bones ... John Wilkes Booth might have been a successful assassin, but he was a largely ineffectual escape artist. (CNN -- Showbiz)
