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Ilsa

(64,581 posts)
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 12:22 PM Mar 2024

I watched first two episodes of Manhunt on AppleTv.

The first season is a dramatization about John Wilkes Booth. Frankly, it left me nervous, even a bit terrified. Booth and his Confederate-loving partners tried to assassinate the senior Cabinet as well as Lincoln and Johnson.

I hope no one feels inspired by this terrorism. Maybe the later episode where they are hanged will give them something to ruminate upon.

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I watched first two episodes of Manhunt on AppleTv. (Original Post) Ilsa Mar 2024 OP
Have not watched yet, want to see Patton in this, but I hear you. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2024 #1
I don't remember the details of the manhunt, Ilsa Mar 2024 #2
Seems very stilted and dodgy to me. n/t Buttoneer Mar 2024 #3
I know what you're talking about, but Ilsa Mar 2024 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
1. Have not watched yet, want to see Patton in this, but I hear you.
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 12:24 PM
Mar 2024

These traitors will do anything.

Ilsa

(64,581 posts)
2. I don't remember the details of the manhunt,
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 12:37 PM
Mar 2024

how many were involved, and everyone they attempted to assassinate. I'm enjoying the drama, and that it isn't a docudrama.

Reconstruction was a failure from the standpoint that the South's hearts and minds were not changed. We don't need a repeat.

Ilsa

(64,581 posts)
4. I know what you're talking about, but
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 12:05 AM
Mar 2024

the overall idea of the multiple assassinations, using intelligence sources and spies, and attempts to restart the war has me freaked out a bit.

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