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Did Abe Lincoln's Assassin Escape? DNA May Solve Mystery

Descendants of John Wilkes Booth have agreed to exhume his brother's body for DNA testing in an attempt to determine whether the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln escaped capture and eluded justice, as the family has been told. "I'm absolutely in favor of exhuming Edwin," Joanne Hulme, a Booth family historian, told...

Why Are the the Washington Nationals So Bad? Blame It on a Ghost

(Sept. 15) -- As the baseball season winds down and the best teams head into the playoffs, one team -- the Washington Nationals -- has consistently played so badly that some are speculating that it may be (shudder) haunted. A Baltimore Sun article suggests the ghost of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes...

John Wilkes Booth Adds the Nationals to His Body Count

Curses and baseball are two things that have gone together for a very long time. Too long if you ask me. There was the Curse of the Bambino that supposedly kept the Boston Red Sox from winning the World Series until they finally won one in 2004, and then there's the Curse of the Billy Goat in Chicago. That one has kept the...

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05/29/12 New production of "Topdog/Underdog" satisfies Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia PA It's such a pleasure to watch a production make something more of a play than seems possible.
05/23/12 Local woman tells ï¿½controversialï¿½ tale in new book Source: SoMdNews.com - Waldorf MD John Wilkes Booth is known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at Fordï¿½s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and then escaping to a farm in Virginia, where he was later tracked down and shot dead.
05/23/12 This just in: celebrities can keep their voting... Source: Moose Jaw Times Herald Last week, Betty White became the latest celebrity to declare her preference in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
05/15/12 Golden Gate Opera performs Civil War-era drama at San... Source: Marin Independent Journal - Novato CA Students at Davidson Middle School in San Rafael got a taste of opera Tuesday as part of their Civil War studies.
05/10/12 PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MAY 10 Source: Playbill 1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today.

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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor.

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