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Tobias Menzies in "Manhunt" (Apple TV+)

"Manhunt" tells another side of history

Melanie McFarland
Lili Taylor as Mary Todd Lincoln and Hamish Linklater as Abraham Lincoln in "Manhunt" (AppleTV+)

The hunt for Lincoln's killer, revisited

Melanie McFarland
Hamish Linklater as Abraham Lincoln in "Manhunt" (Apple TV+)

The "diabolical plan" to kill Lincoln

Hanh Nguyen
Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't repeat the Jeff Davis mistake

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
(Reuters/RJ Sangosti/Wikimedia/AP/Chuck Burton)

Celebrity killer culture

Arthur Chu
Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth (Wikimedia)

"I know I am in danger"

Joseph Wheelan
Abraham Lincoln (AP/Alexander Gardner)

The South could've been saved

Louis P. Masur
A detail from the cover of "Mourning Lincoln" (Yale University Press)

Lincoln assassination horror

Martha Hodes
(Wikimedia)

Inside Lincoln's final hours

Richard Wightman Fox
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