Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered a single photograph be taken of John Wilkes Booth's corpse, says Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography. Most experts agree that famed ...
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 ...