The Real History Behind Apple TV+'s 'Manhunt' and the Search for Abraham Lincoln's Killer
Source: Smithsonian
Vanessa Armstrong History Correspondent In the hours following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on the evening of April 14, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton sent a flurry of telegrams to his officers in the field. “Make immediate arrangements for guarding thoroughly every avenue leading into Baltimore, and if possible, arrest [John] Wilkes Booth, the murderer of” the president, Stanton wrote in one early…
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