Daniel Ellsberg
Role: Self (Narraror)
Patricia Ellsberg
Role: Self
John Dean
Role: Self - White House Counsel to President Nixon
Howard Zinn
Role: Self - Historian
Peter Arnett
Role: Self - Associated Press Correspondent (archive footage)
Ben Bagdikian
Role: Self - Editor, Washington Post
Ann Beeson
Role: Self - Associate Legal Director, ACLU
Robert Ellsberg
Role: Self - Daniel's Son
Richard Falk
Role: Self - Professor of International Law
Max Frankel
Role: Self - Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times
J. William Fulbright
Role: Self - Chair Foreign Relations Committee (archive footage)
James Goodale
Role: Self - General Counsel, New York Times
Mike Gravel
Role: Self - Senator (D-Alaska)
Morton Halperin
Role: Self - Supervisor, Vietnam War Study (as Mort Halperin)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Role: Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
Randy Kehler
Role: Self - Draft Resister
Bud Krogh
Role: Self - Director, 'Plumbers' Unit (as Egil Krogh)
Pete McCloskey
Role: Self - Representative, California
Robert McNamara
Role: Self (archive footage)
Wayne Morse
Role: Self - Senator, Oregon (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Role: Self - President (archive footage)
Thomas Oliphant
Role: Self - Reporter, Boston Globe (as Tom Oliphant)
Dan Rather
Role: Self - Reporter (archive footage)
Tony Russo
Role: Self - RAND Analyst
Thomas Schelling
Role: Self - RAND Analyst / Nobel Laureate
Hedrick Smith
Role: Self - Reporter, New York Times
Janaki Tschannerl
Role: Self - Peace Activist
Leonard Weinglass
Role: Self - Russo Defense Attorney
