Author Karen Joy Fowler thinks John Wilkes Booth craved attention – and that he's gotten his fair share of it. So her new novel, Booth, instead focuses on his family. Their history might surprise you, ...

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Did John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, die a fiery death in a Virginia barn at the hands of federal captors 130 years ago, as official history tells us? Or is the truth more ...