TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 16.--Boston Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes Booth, created a sensation in the Kansas House of Representatives yesterday.

Every schoolchild knows that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. But history has more or less forgotten Boston Corbett, the Union soldier who helped hunt down Booth and fired the shot ...

After Booth shot Lincoln in back of his head with his ... a Virginia tobacco barn and shot by a Union soldier, Thomas "Boston" Corbett. Corbett was born in the U.K., and his family immigrated ...

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Corbett, Sergeant, Letter why he Shot Booth. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Comedian Jesse Joyce says his fascination with “the guy who cut his own balls off with a pair of scissors and then killed John Wilkes Booth” forced him to write his new book.

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, not April 25, and Booth was caught hiding in a barn in Virginia, not Maryland, where he was killed by Sgt. Thomas H. “Boston” Corbett.) ...

D.C. after shooting Abraham Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer on April 14, 1865, altering the course of history and prompting a 12-day manhunt that ended when Sgt. Boston Corbett ...