The Assassination of Lincoln

It was the largest manhunt in history: 10,000 federal troops, detectives, and police untangling a vast conspiracy to track down the man responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

A look at the Civil War's final days, which forever changed the war's end and the nation's new beginning.

Historians, biographers, and researchers explore, defend, and debunk the conspiracies surrounding John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in 1865.

He is perhaps the most beloved president in American history, but in his lifetime, Abraham Lincoln was hated by so many that an envelope inside his desk marked "Assassination" was stuffed with 100 morbid letters.

Scholars and historians examine how our country's most beloved president became so mythologized.

Director Vikram Jayanti explores Abraham Lincoln's remarkable rise from humble beginnings to the highest office in the land.