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Matthew Weiner, creator of the television series “Mad Men,” set his sights on Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in ...
Cassie Litton's daughter developed a new fear after learning about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John Wilkes Booth.
The creator of "Mad Men" is behind a new play running in Baltimore about John Wilkes Booth. Why it matters: Matthew Weiner ...
When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and ...
I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One ...
Robert F. Kennedy assassination, we take a look at other presidents and presidential candidates who were assassinated or ...
The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...
Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was watching a play with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre when Booth came from ...
John Wilkes Booth wasn’t the best actor in the Booth family: he was outshone by his father, Junius Brutus Booth, and by his brother Edwin. But John Wilkes was the most beautiful of the Booths ...
Director Matthew Weiner and producer Ken-Matt Martin join “Morning in America” to talk about their new play, “John Wilkes ...
John Wilkes Booth’s hunger for fame — for remembrance — is understood to have motivated his crime at least as much as his oft ...
Matthew Weiner has built his career creating characters who defy the simple definition of either good or bad. His work ...