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''Manhunt'' (not to be confused with the similarly named TrueCrime [[Series/ManhuntUnabomber show]] that debuted in 2017, or another in 2019) is a seven-episode 2024 Creator/AppleTVPlus PoliceProcedural historical thriller BasedOnATrueStory: The manhunt for UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth following his assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
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''Manhunt'' (not to be confused with the similarly named TrueCrime [[Series/ManhuntUnabomber show]] that debuted in 2017, or another in 2019) is a seven-episode 2024 Creator/AppleTVPlus PoliceProcedural historical thriller BasedOnATrueStory: The manhunt for UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth following his assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. It stars Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton and Anthony Boyle as Booth.
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Seward was the victim of an assassination attempt, not Stanton.
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** Stanton's assassination attempt is depicted as being some time before Booth's assassination of President Lincoln. In fact, the two attacks happened almost simultaneously.
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** Stanton's Seward's assassination attempt is depicted as being some time before Booth's assassination of President Lincoln. In fact, the two attacks happened almost simultaneously.
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** Stanton dies shortly after he's nominated to the Supreme Court, just on Christmas Eve. The circumstances behind his death are accurate, but he died when it was dark out.
* BittersweetEnding: Booth is dead, most of the conspirators in Lincoln's death are hanged, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution are passed to guarantee rights to the former slaves, and Johnson only lasts a single term. But there isn't enough evidence to prove that the Confederacy ordered Lincoln's death, Stanton is removed from his position as Secretary of War by Johnson to ensure Reconstruction doesn't go through, Johnson's impeachment is thwarted by one vote, and Stanton dies the day he's confirmed to the Supreme Court. Even then, history will take an ugly turn as Reconstruction will inevitably end in the coming decade, the South will take drastic measures to put the freed blacks under their thumb with the Jim Crow laws, and those draconian laws will remain in place for over a century until the Civil Rights movement puts it to an end--all thanks to Johnson's actions to end the northern occupation of the south.
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* DetrimentalDetermination: Stanton's determination to capture and bring Booth to justice is presented as being harmful to his asthma. Even under doctor's orders, he refuses to stop, and subsequently his second wife leaves to visit her family.
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* DetrimentalDetermination: Stanton's determination to capture and bring Booth to justice is presented as being harmful to his asthma. Even under doctor's orders, he refuses to stop, and subsequently his second wife leaves to visit her family. His desire to see Lincoln's vision through put such a bad strain on his health, he dies before he can accept the position of a Supreme Court justice. This is TruthInTelevision, as the real Stanton worked himself to death trying to make sure Reconstruction went through.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Congress' impeachment of Johnson overlooks the shady circumstances of the real-life debacle. In truth, they [[BatmanGambit deliberately passed a law that they knew Johnson would break]][[note]]The Tenure of Office Act of 1867, which forbade the President from removing any member of his cabinet without the explicit approval of Congress[[/note]] so they could impeach him for his actions and put the President Pro Temperate of the Senate in charge of the White House (due to Johnson not having a Vice President of his own, and the succession rules not being as clearly established back then). In actuality, the act in question was deemed unconstitutional and was seen as an abuse of power by Congress. The show itself depicts Johnson's firing of Stanton as blatantly illegal for attempting to interfere with Reconstruction.
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** In a flashback, Lincoln and Stanton discuss and celebrate how they finally "have the votes for Reconstruction" and that "the 13th [Amendment] is as good as ratified now" on April 14th, as they discuss Lincoln's plans to attend the the theater later that day. As depicted in the 2012 film, the House voted to ratify the 13th Amendment roughly two months earlier on January 31st.
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** In a flashback, Lincoln and Stanton discuss and celebrate how they finally "have the votes for Reconstruction" and that "the 13th [Amendment] is as good as ratified now" on April 14th, as they discuss Lincoln's plans to attend the the theater later that day. As depicted in [[{{Film/Lincoln}} the 2012 film, film]], the House voted to ratify the 13th Amendment roughly two months earlier on January 31st.
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** Shortly after the trial against the Lincoln conspirators, Andrew Johnson interrupts the festivities at the White House to inform Stanton that he's being dismissed and replaced by general Lorenzo Thomas. In turn, Stanton informs him that Congress wouldn't stand for it, and would have him impeached. While this is a fairly accurate depiction of Stanton's removal, it's a full ''three years'' premature; Stanton would serve as Johnson's Secretary of War until 1868.
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** The final episode has a recently captured Jefferson Davis defiantly tell Stanton that the "will win the White House and fly the American flag. And ''that'' flag will represent the Confederacy." This would've been strange for him to say for a number of reasons:
*** First, the goal of the Confederacy was never to win back the White House, but to become their ''own country.'' They no longer wanted to be within the same government as the loyal Union states, let alone return to the Executive branch to govern over them.
*** Second, Jefferson Davis would've had ''zero'' reason to believe that any of the Confederate leaders would've made any return to political office for the foreseeable future. He was currently held on charges of treason (and would remain imprisoned for two whole years), the Union civilian population was ''incensed'' by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the restoration of former-Confederate political rights (let alone a return to Congress or the White House) was still several years in the future.
*** First, the goal of the Confederacy was never to win back the White House, but to become their ''own country.'' They no longer wanted to be within the same government as the loyal Union states, let alone return to the Executive branch to govern over them.
*** Second, Jefferson Davis would've had ''zero'' reason to believe that any of the Confederate leaders would've made any return to political office for the foreseeable future. He was currently held on charges of treason (and would remain imprisoned for two whole years), the Union civilian population was ''incensed'' by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the restoration of former-Confederate political rights (let alone a return to Congress or the White House) was still several years in the future.
