#DYK that people at the time thought President Lincoln's assassination was a conspiracy? "It was a reasonable belief that this was a last-minute attempt by the Confederacy to overturn the verdict of the battlefield." “Manhunt” author James Swanson talks about the Apple TV series based on his account of the 12-day search in April 1865 for President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Watch, on American History TV, this Saturday 3/16 at 6pm ET on C-SPAN 2. https://www.c-span.org/video/?534032-1