The Most Dangerous Man in America

Daniel Ellsberg

Self (Narraror)

Patricia Ellsberg

Self

John Dean

Self - White House Counsel to President Nixon

Howard Zinn

Self - Historian

Peter Arnett

Self - Associated Press Correspondent (archive footage)

Ben Bagdikian

Self - Editor, Washington Post

Ann Beeson

Self - Associate Legal Director, ACLU

Robert Ellsberg

Self - Daniel's Son

Richard Falk

Self - Professor of International Law

Max Frankel

Self - Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times

J. William Fulbright

Self - Chair Foreign Relations Committee (archive footage)

James Goodale

Self - General Counsel, New York Times

Mike Gravel

Self - Senator (D-Alaska)

Morton Halperin

Self - Supervisor, Vietnam War Study (as Mort Halperin)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)

Randy Kehler

Self - Draft Resister

Bud Krogh

Self - Director, 'Plumbers' Unit (as Egil Krogh)

Pete McCloskey

Self - Representative, California

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Wayne Morse

Self - Senator, Oregon (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self - President (archive footage)

Thomas Oliphant

Self - Reporter, Boston Globe (as Tom Oliphant)

Dan Rather

Self - Reporter (archive footage)

Tony Russo

Self - RAND Analyst