When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, history quickly fixed its attention on Booth himself.

Singer-songwriter and pianist John Legend will perform at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre on May 3. The show begins at 8 p.m. An artist’s presale begins Wednesday for “An ...

On Good Friday, 1865, a man entered his room in Washington’s National Hotel. He’d be leaving on a one-way trip in a few hours. He filled one pocket with things you’d expect: a ring of keys, a compass, ...

WILKESBORO — Brittany Nicholson, a first-generation college student and sophomore in WCC’s Radiography program, has been named the 2025–2026 recipient of the John N. Bennett Scholarship. Nicholson, ...

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 ...

The suspect accused of ramming a car into a metal gate at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office quoted Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth during his confession, a special agent revealed in a ...

A little under ninety days after President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, four of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators — Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt — ...

An offhand remark eerily predicted the gruesome death of one of America's most notorious assassins. The original autopsy of John Wilkes Booth contains some fascinating things. Senate Democrats block ...

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 ...

John Oates, who plays a free concert in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, made his name as half of a legendary rock duo. But he wants to be clear. “I don’t want people to misinterpret this. It’s not a Hall & ...

Capital City Theatre delivers a chilling and deeply human production of Assassins. Under Jake Penner's thoughtful direction, delivers a haunting and provocative evening that examines the nine ...