Director
Barbara Kopple
DIRECTOR
Danny Schechter
Stars (in credits order)
Ike Pappas
narrator, also as Himself
Oliver Stone
Self
Tom Wicker
Self - New York Times
Walter Cronkite
Self - CBS News
Robert MacNeil
Self - MacNeil
Jean Hill
Self - JFK assassination witness
Jim Garrison
Self - former New Orleans district attorney
Kevin Costner
Lee Harvey Oswald
Self(archiveFootage)
Marina Oswald
Ed Hoffman
Beverly Oliver
Malcolm Summers
Gary Oldman
Henry M. Wade
Jim Marrs
Self - author of book 'Crossfire'
Will Fritz
Jack Ruby
Lyndon B. Johnson
Earl Warren
Gerald Ford
J. Edgar Hoover
Tip O'Neill
Self - former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Arlen Specter
Self - senator, Pennsylvania (R)(archiveFootage)
Allen Dulles
John F. Kennedy
Anita Hill
Jerry Policoff
Self - media critic
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
Sissy Spacek
Cyril H. Wecht
Self - Forensic Pathologist
David Lifton
Self - author of 'Best Evidence'
Mary Ferrell
Self - legal secretary and JFK assassination researcher
Larry N. Howard
Self - JFK Assassination Information Center
Wallace Milam
Self - JFK assassination researcher
Ron Lewis
Self - Lee Harvey Oswald's friend
John Davis
Self - author of book 'Mafia Kingfish'
Madeleine Brown
Self - friend of Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert J. Groden
Self - author and photo analyst
Mark Lane
Self - author of books 'Rush to Judgment' and 'Plausible Denial'
Marita Lorenz
Self - former CIA operative(archiveFootage)
Earl Ruby
Self - Jack Ruby's brother
Jonathan Kwitny
Self - investigative reporter
Rosemary James
Self - journalist
Carl Oglesby
Self - political analyst
Zachary Sklar
Self - editor of 'On the Trail of the Assassins'
William Turner
Self - former FBI agent
James DiEugenio
Self - JFK assassination expert
Russell Long
Self - former US senator(archiveFootage)
Dean Andrews
Self - New Orleans attorney(archiveFootage)
Clay Shaw
Perry R. Russo
Self - prosecution witness at the Shaw Trial
Numa V. Bertel Jr.
Self - assistant to Jim Garrison
Lou Ivon
Edward A. Haggerty
Self - presiding judge of the Shaw Trial
Oliver North
Self - Iran Contra Hearings(archiveFootage)
John Dean
Self - Watergate Hearings(archiveFootage)
David Duke
Fidel Castro
David MacMichael
Self - former CIA officer
Santo Trafficante Jr.
Self - Tampa Mafia Moss(archiveFootage)
Johnny Roselli
Self - Mafia operative(archiveFootage)
Sam Giancana
Self - Chicago Mafia boss(archiveFootage)
Carlos Marcello
Self - Mafia chieftain of New Orleans(archiveFootage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Jimmy Hoffa
Dan Moldea
Self - Author of 'The Hoffa Wars'
Richard N. Goodwin
Self - former Robert F. Kennedy aide
L. Fletcher Prouty
Self - ret. Colonel
John M. Newman
Self - Major and author of 'JFK and Vietnam'
Stanley Karnow
Self - historian, author of 'Vietnam: A History'
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jim Lesar
Self - lawyer and curator of Assassination Archives and Research Center
George Bush
Self(archiveFootage)(voice)
Ted Kennedy
Edward Asner
Tommy Lee Jones
Richard R. Bartholomew
Self(uncredited)
John Connally
Self(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Nellie Connally
Jesse E. Curry
Jodie Farber
Jackie Kennedy - Double(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
David Ferrie
John Kennedy Jr.
Caroline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Ted Koppel
Jim Leavelle
John J. McCloy
Self(uncredited)(archiveFootage)(unconfirmed)
Richard Nixon
Marguerite Oswald
Jerry Stiller