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[Ciaphas Cain]

YouTube video: Samuel Seymour, age 96, last surviving eyewitness to Lincoln's assassination, talking about it on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1956

[wally_bert]

If only Rex Hamilton was president then.....

[telescope115]

I saw this. I thought it was a good production.

[mass55th]

I didn't read the book, but have read reviews, and most have been very good. The 2024 TV series that aired on AppleTV, based on the book was crap, with many inaccurate historical facts throughout it. The author of the book "Manhunt" must have been paid a large sum of money for Hollywood producers to destroy it with fictional inaccuracies. For example, Tobias Menzies, the British actor who portrayed Sec. of War Edwin Stanton was shown as younger and slimmer than Stanton. The real Stanton was much older, had a paunch, had a very long beard, and wore glasses. Menzies had no beard, nor glasses. The series showed Stanton riding out with the 16th NY Cavalry Regiment to hunt down Booth. That never happened.

Another inaccuracy was a scene showing Stanton going to a U. S. Army Hospital in Washington, D. C. in 1865, to speak to Surgeon General Dr. William A. Hammond. Stanton had already fired Hammond in August 1863, so he wasn't even in that post at the time. The reason Hammond was fired was because he tried to cut through the red tape of getting supplies and trying new treatments, and Stanton refused his requests on everything. Hammond defied Stanton and did what he thought was best for the soldiers.

Casting was horrible. They had Patton Oswalt playing Detective Lafayette Baker.

An excellent book on John Wilkes Booth, the conspiracy plot, the assassination and the chase for Booth is "American Brutus" written by Michael W. Kauffman, and published in 2005. It is extensively sourced, and very well written. Kauffman had already been researching the Lincoln Assassination 1969 when he wrote the book. He has given lectures and been a consultant on various history programs dealing with the assassination. He also regularly volunteered as a guide for the bus tour of Booth's Escape Route Tour conducted by the Surratt Society, who also saved and preserved the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland.