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 ...

Democrat-Gazette columnist Philip Martin is also a songwriter, and we've worked on a few cuts together over the years. One of his songs that I didn't help out on is called "Boston Corbett." ...

Actors who played the role of Sergeant Boston Corbett: Pendleton Harrison [Broadway] Add a Show Listing: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more! EXPLORE REGIONS. Sign-up: ...

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.) ...

The new Apple TV+ show 'Manhunt' tackles the Abraham Lincoln assassination — and its aftermath — with surprising accuracy.

Democrat-Gazette columnist Philip Martin is also a songwriter, and we've worked on a few cuts together over the years. One of his songs that I didn't help out on is called "Boston Corbett." ...