Life has a strange way of throwing curveballs that defy logic. Sometimes reality feels stranger than fiction, and the ...

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

Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the nation's 44th -- and first African-American -- president Tuesday. And the obsession is certainly not lost on the president-elect. On January 10, he and his ...

Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and heard the ...

It is no great wonder if in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.” — Plutarch “I’ve been looking for you my ...

Whether an assassin wants to silence someone over mysterious secrets, act for a cause, or eliminate a rival, the concept ...

The characters are based on real people who attempted, successfully or unsuccessfully, to assassinate a United States president. These nine men and women have their stories told with the help of a ...

I visited the Lincoln Memorial last weekend. The colossal 19-foot statue of Abraham Lincoln loomed above me, looking towards ...

Trump issued several clemencies during the first year of his second term, many targeted at criminal cases federal prosecutors ...

The attorney for the man accused of fatally shooting legendary Oakland football coach John Beam raised questions Wednesday about her client’s mental fitness to stand trial, casting fresh uncertainty ...

As Minneapolis reels from the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good, John Mulaney has postponed this weekend’s shows in the Twin City. The 4x Emmy-winning comedian announced that his Mister Whatever shows ...