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As the series wraps on Apple TV+ we look at the real history of John Wilkes Booth's final days. What's true and what's fiction?

10 Brutal Accounts Of Torture In Old Insane Asylums Reports from the 1800s and early 1900s about the abuse of patients in insane asylums are enough to make the strongest person want to vomit. The patients were often kept in the most horrendous conditions and, in some cases, were treated far worse than any mistreated farm animal. Even worse, the asylums fought back against the charges, claiming that none of the accusations against them should be believed because the patients were already insane....