The Ten Thousand Day War (1980) | Full Cast

Joseph B. Anderson

Self

Anthony Astuccio

Self

George R. Christmas

Self

Peter Braestrup

Self

Richard Basehart

Narrator

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self (biographer of LBJ)

David Harris

Self (husband of Joan Baez)

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Eugene McCarthy

Self (presidential candidate)

Tim O'Brien

Self (veteran, US Army)

Alexander Haig

Self (Nixon's Chief of Staff)

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

William C. Westmoreland

Self

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Self (Kennedy advisor)

Jerry Rubin

Self (peace activist)

Brian Jenkins

Self (military analyst)

Clark Clifford

Self (Secretary of Defense)

William Colby

Self (CIA Director)

David Dellinger

Self (pacifist leader)

J. William Fulbright

Self

John Ehrlichman

Self (Nixon's senior domestic aide)

Robert Komer

Self

Jack McCloskey

Self (veteran, USMC)

Nguyen Van Thieu

Self (President of South Vietnam)

Tom McClure

Self (veteran, US Army)

Ellsworth Bunker

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

Maxwell Taylor

Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)

Melvin Laird

Self (Nixon's Secretary of Defense)

Dean Rusk

Self (LBJ's Secretary of State)

Jane Fonda

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Muhammad Ali

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Pat Nixon

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Joan Baez

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Richard Nixon

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Martin Luther King

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Henry Kissinger

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Ho Chí Minh

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Coretta Scott King

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Stokely Carmichael

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Spiro Agnew

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Nelson Rockefeller

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Daniel Berrigan

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Martha Mitchell

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Richard J. Daley

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Ramsey Clark

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Nguyen Giap Vo

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Earl Warren

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John Mitchell

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Van Dong Pham

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Duc Tho Le

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