Accuracy was sacrificed in some of the details
After Manhunt episode 6 saw Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's desperate pursuit of John Wilkes Booth come to an end, the show's focus shifted to the conspirators who supported Booth, both on the night of the assassination and the months leading up to it. Manhunt creator Monica Beletsky blended fact and fiction in the show's depiction of the trial covering Stanton's charges of a grand conspiracy.
In reality, Stanton coordinated the efforts required to hunt down Booth, but he did so largely via telegraph and dispatching agents into the field. As a politician and lawyer, the real Edwin Stanton simply didn't have the boots-on-the-ground role that Manhunt gives him. As a result, many of the scenes involving him questioning the individuals involved in the conspiracy himself are fictional. That includes Mary Surratt, George N.
Conover's real name was Charles Durham, one of three aliases that he frequently used in his capacity of a spy. Throughout Manhunt, Mary Simms was given a much larger role because she acted as a representation of not only the many brave men and women who testified in the trial, but also as a representation of all former slaves in post-Civil War America.
3 Stanton Never Suspected Andrew Johnson Was Connected To The Conspiracy Stanton's cryptic threat to Johnson likely never happened. Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan was a twisted, warped version of Lincoln's original vision, and directly resulted in much of the hatred and violence that black Americans endured in the following century.
Stanton's alleged attempted assassination of Jefferson Davis may have been the primary motivation for Booth killing Lincoln.
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