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    Review: 'Manhunt' takes some liberties to depict the real-life chase for Lincoln's killer

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Mar 15, 2024 4 minutes
    Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton, U.S. secretary of war, in “Manhunt.”

    Abraham Lincoln — perhaps you've heard of him? Sixteenth president of the United States, assassinated five days after the end of the Civil War at Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Booth. Sic semper tyrannis.

    Well, I don't know what they're teaching in school these days, but I hope none of that is news to anyone. Even so, there's always more to know. James L. Swanson's 2006 book "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer," which concentrates on the assassination and its aftermath, is one of thousands of deeply researched volumes on the president, his associates, his assassin and the assassin's associates; as if to demonstrate a point, Swanson followed it with "Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution" and "Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis

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