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Manhunt is an American historical drama miniseries created by showrunner Monica Beletsky, adapted from James L. Swanson's book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. The series follows Edwin Stanton 's search for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln 's assassination .
The film tells the story of Mary Surratt, the only female conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be executed by the US federal government. It stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, together with James McAvoy , Justin Long , Evan Rachel Wood , Jonathan Groff , Tom Wilkinson , Alexis Bledel , Kevin Kline ...
When she pitched Apple TV+, executives there told her the rights to “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer,” James L. Swanson’s 2006 bestselling book, were available.
Most American schoolchildren learn that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in a theater. But that's where many people's understanding of Lincoln's assassination ends. I'm going to be brutally ...
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest turning points in American history, and the new Apple TV+ series “Manhunt” examines the behind-the-scenes drama of a wartime ...
He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on Lincoln's life and death, including Lincoln, The Quotable Lincoln, Blood on the Moon, The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, His Name is Still Mudd, The Trial, The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence, Lincoln Legends, and The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia. [4]
The book then states that in 1864, Baker uncovered the plans of Lincoln's future assassin, John Wilkes Booth, to kidnap Lincoln with the help of a different group of conspirators with different motives. The Stanton group, through Baker and Conness, supposedly provided Booth with money and information on Lincoln's movements.
The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780061787751. Steers, Edward Jr.; Holzer, Harold (2009). The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807133965.