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The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On

The New Yorker
Jill Lepore reviews “Manhunt,” a new television miniseries produced by AppleTV+, adapted from “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's...
6 months ago

The forgotten man who almost became President after Lincoln

The National Constitution Center
On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from his assassin's wounds. But if John Wilkes Booth's plot were entirely successful,...
5 months ago

‘Manhunt’: Inside the Real Pursuit to Capture John Wilkes Booth

Biography
The new Apple TV+ show dramatizes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's search for John Wilkes Booth after he murdered President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
6 months ago

‘Manhunt’ Review: Pursuing John Wilkes Booth on Apple TV+ - WSJ

WSJ
A true-crime dramatization that lays down a trail of historical-ephemeral breadcrumbs as it recounts the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.
6 months ago

Watch The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth

History.com
It was the largest manhunt in history–ten thousand federal troops, detectives and police hunted those responsible for the assassination of President Abraham...
8 months ago

Why Did John Wilkes Booth Kill Abraham Lincoln? And How Was He Caught? The Real History Of Manhunt

HistoryExtra
On 14 April 1865, an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth entered Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, not to perform but to murder the president of the United...
6 months ago

'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class

AP News
A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the...
6 months ago

Apple TV+’s Lincoln Assassination Drama ‘Manhunt’ Is Informative but Sluggish: TV Review

Variety
Tobias Menzies and Anthony Boyle offer two different perspectives as Edwin Stanton and John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Lincoln's...
6 months ago

Why Does Edwin Stanton Burn the Pages of John Wilkes Booth's Diary in 'Manhunt'?

Pajiba
In the South, where I grew up, the version of history taught in schools during the 1980s and 1990s often glorified the Confederacy and...
5 months ago

Burning ‘Manhunt’ Finale Questions: Wait, Did That Really Happen?

IndieWire
John Wilkes Booth was trapped in a burning tobacco barn on Garrett's farm when Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him through a crack in the barn's...
5 months ago