Booth the 'star' of band of conspirators

Kimberly Largent-Christopher SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Actor's plan to kidnap Lincoln becomes murder plot

John Wilkes Booth -- named by his grandfather after England's John Wilkes, a member of Parliament who stood up to King George III in the ...

1st Vietnam War victims honored
4 AM Gillian Gaynair ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was July 1959 and Stanley Karnow, Time magazine's chief correspondent in Asia, was on his first trip to Saigon when he heard about an attack at an Army base about 20 miles north of ... Continue reading »
Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara dies
4 AM Sean Lengell
Robert S. McNamara, the defense secretary during the escalation of the Vietnam War who later recanted many of his military decisions and called the conflict a mistake, died early Monday at his Washington home. Continue reading »
Former Defense Secretary McNamara dies
1 PM Sean Lengell
Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense during the escalation of the Vietnam War who later recanted many of his military decisions and called the conflict a mistake, died Monday at his Washington home. He was ... Continue reading »
Lincoln seals it with a kiss
4 AM Charles DeLeon SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The president, as noted by diarist George Templeton Strong, was "waiting for dispatches and, no doubt, sickening with anxiety." It was Friday afternoon, May 6, 1864, and the Army of the Potomac had not been ... Continue reading »
SGT. SHAFT: Separation pay review pending
4 AM
Dear Sgt. Shaft, I am one of those veterans who got out on the premise that I would get my severance pay. I, too, was not told that if I got a service connection disability ... Continue reading »