Manhunt on Apple TV Plus is based on the bestselling book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson. It's part conspiracy thriller and part historical fiction as this period drama follows the hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s killer John Wilkes Booth.
Manhunt stars The Crown’s Tobias Menzies as Lincoln’s friend and war secretary Edwin Stanton, who after the president’s assassination in April 1865, led the search for his killer. Masters of The Air star Anthony Boyle will play John Wilkes Booth, the well-known stage actor who shot the president in the head as he watched the play Our American Cousin at the Ford's Theatre in Washington DC in 1865, shortly after the American Civl War.
