#Booth Manhunt

[deadpresidents]

Booth had died onstage dozens of times in Richard III, Hamlet, and Shakespeare's other great tragedies, but tonight he was not playacting. He wanted to go down fighting, not hang like a petty thief. "I have too great a soul to die like a criminal," he wrote in his diary a few nights before. "Oh may he, may he spare me that and let me die bravely." For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at the improvised theatre of Garrett's farm, but also for history.

He had already perpetrated the most flamboyant public murder in American history. Indeed, Booth had not only committed murder, he had performed it, fully staged before a packed house. At Ford's Theatre, Booth broke the fourth wall between artist and audience by creating a new, dark art -- performance assassination.

-- James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

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ANTHONY BOYLE as JOHN WILKES BOOTH in MANHUNT (2024), episode six

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[violaobanion]

ANTHONY BOYLE as JOHN WILKES BOOTH in MANHUNT (2024)

[hamishlinklaters]

"We're down to raisins!"

MANHUNT (2024) Episode 1: Pilot

[agir1ukn0w]

I wanna fuck him so bad but I also know he must die violently at my hands

[sagesolsticewrites]

Anthony Boyle in Episode 5 (“A Man of Destiny”) of Manhunt

[assassinsmusical]

you know john wilkes booth’s life was wild when he was stabbed in the face by a lover and it’s not even one of the top ten wildest things that happened to him

[scuttle-buttle]

John Wilkes Booth is a terrible person but I can't stop thinking about Anto's interview

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

Manhunt is so fun my favorite part is when John Wilkes Booth is delusional (the entire series)

[pranklinfierce]

Found another pen so I'm sketching again.

I accidentally composed my page so that cartoon conkling and cartoon old maid buchanan seem to be really unhappy that John wilkes booth is there. Maybe they didn't like manhunt. Neither did i

[deadpresidents]

Are you looking forward to Manhunt on Apple TV?

Are you kidding me? OF COURSE I AM. I loved James L. Swanson's book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), which I believe the series is based around. Swanson's follow-up book, Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), is even better than Manhunt, but I'm guessing that it's not as easy to pitch a series about the Confederate President fleeing Richmond at the end of the war while undertakers try to hide the fact that Lincoln's body was rapidly decomposing during his 20-day-long funeral tour.

But I'd just about watch any show or movie dramatizing historical events, so I'm pretty much the target audience for things like this. I'm already a dangerous combination of excited and impatient for the series that Netflix is producing about James Garfield, Charles Guiteau, and the Garfield Assassination which -- as if that news wasn't enticing enough on its own -- will star Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Shannon!

(One major question I already have about Manhunt, however, is about Tobias Menzies, who appears to be playing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in the series. Now that's totally fine -- Tobias Menzies is an excellent actor and I thought he was awesome as Prince Philip in The Crown. But in the trailer, Menzies looks nearly completely clean-shaven while Edwin Stanton had a pretty legendary, nineteenth-century, facial hair of God-length beard. I'm sure I'll get over it within the first five minutes, but it seems like a pretty significant choice/oversight.)

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ANTHONY BOYLE as JOHN WILKES BOOTH in MANHUNT (2024)

[theotherstudentsatclonehigh]

Who made this gravestone and why?

Well….Perhaps a story might give your the answer……

[violaobanion]

"You should probably shave."

ANTHONY BOYLE as JOHN WILKES BOOTH in MANHUNT (2024)

[the-uncanny-dag]

Waiting with bated breath for the The Terror girlies to discover Manhunt Apple Plus