Booth fled the building and, along with co-conspirator David Herold, evaded the authorities for nearly two weeks. Booth was shot and killed during capture in Virginia on April 26.

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These suspects included Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael O’Laughlen, Edmund Spangler and Samuel Arnold.

In his new book, David O. Stewart, a historian of the American Revolution, changes not only his time period but also his genre: “The Lincoln Deception” revolves around the assassination of ...

Earlier that morning, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, had been trapped in a tobacco barn in Port Royal, Virginia, about 75 miles south of Washington. Herold surrendered.

How did Booth recruit Herold? The answer is not clear. Many historians, led by Lincoln assassination experts such as R.J. Norton, have tried to plumb precisely what happened between them.

Herold, following the assassination, was responsible for finding Booth medical care, and he accompanied him to the house of a Maryland doctor, Samuel Mudd.

Four were sentenced to hang: Powell, Atzerodt, David Herold, who was Booth’s right hand man and Mary Surratt, who owned the boardinghouse where the conspiracy was hatched.

The Military Commission which tried the accomplices in the assassination of President Lincoln reported that David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, alias James Thornwall Powell, and Mrs ...

David Herold An impressionable and dull-witted pharmacy clerk, Herold led Booth on the escape route into Virginia. He surrendered at the Garrett farm, was tried and convicted, and was executed by ...

Booth fled the building and, along with co-conspirator David Herold, evaded authorities for nearly two weeks. Booth was shot and killed during capture in Virginia on April 26.