The Ten Thousand Day War (1980) | Full Cast

Joseph B. Anderson

Self

Peter Braestrup

Self

George R. Christmas

Self

Anthony Astuccio

Self

Richard Basehart

Narrator

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self (biographer of LBJ)

Eugene McCarthy

Self (presidential candidate)

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Alexander Haig

Self (Nixon's Chief of Staff)

David Harris

Self (husband of Joan Baez)

Tim O'Brien

Self (veteran, US Army)

William Colby

Self (CIA Director)

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

William C. Westmoreland

Self

J. William Fulbright

Self

Jerry Rubin

Self (peace activist)

John Ehrlichman

Self (Nixon's senior domestic aide)

Nguyen Van Thieu

Self (President of South Vietnam)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Self (Kennedy advisor)

Ellsworth Bunker

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

David Dellinger

Self (pacifist leader)

Clark Clifford

Self (Secretary of Defense)

Maxwell Taylor

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

Brian Jenkins

Self (military analyst)

Melvin Laird

Self (Nixon's Secretary of Defense)

Robert Komer

Self

Dean Rusk

Self (LBJ's Secretary of State)

Tom McClure

Self (veteran, US Army)

Jack McCloskey

Self (veteran, USMC)

Jane Fonda

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Muhammad Ali

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Joan Baez

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Henry Kissinger

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Richard Nixon

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Martin Luther King

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Martha Mitchell

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Coretta Scott King

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Spiro Agnew

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Ho Chí Minh

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Stokely Carmichael

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Pat Nixon

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Nelson Rockefeller

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Daniel Berrigan

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John Mitchell

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Richard J. Daley

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Earl Warren

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Nguyen Giap Vo

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Ramsey Clark

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Duc Tho Le

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Van Dong Pham

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