Donald Trump is the latest of 14 presidents and candidates to have suffered assassination attempts in the United States.

It certainly isn't because no one tried — assassination attempts and half-baked conspiracies against sitting presidents have ...

The assassination also had the effect of turning Lincoln into a martyr of almost mythological dimensions. As Edwin Stanton remarked when Lincoln died, “Now he belongs to the ages,” and Lincoln has not ...

Before John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Lincoln at a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater on April 15, 1865, assassination simply wasn't a part of the national conscience.

In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet ... throngs as it awaits the next great American death. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 150 years ago this month, has been recounted and ...

Simple8's production of Abraham Lincoln assassination story – written by Sebastian Armesto and Dudley Hinton – is ...

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.

As Congress investigates the first assassination attempt on President ... escaped attempts on his life until 1865 when, at Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth moved his little finger. The murder of ...

Saturday Night Live hosts branded Donald Trump "the weirdest" after his rally in Coachella this weekend. SNL host Colin Jost ...

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Read our review of *Land of the Free*, about Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth, now in performances at the Southwark ...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, is celebrated for preserving the Union during the Civil War and ...