Narrator / Self

Ike Pappas

Self

Oliver Stone

Self

Walter Matthau

Self

Gary Oldman

Self

Sissy Spacek

Self - investigative reporter

Jonathan Kwitny

Self - former CIA operative (archive footage)

Marita Lorenz

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Hoffa

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (voice) (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

Self

Ed Asner

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Ted Koppel

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

Self

Kevin Costner

Self - CBS News

Walter Cronkite

Self

Tommy Lee Jones

Self

Numa V. Bertel Jr.

Self - friend of Lyndon Johnson

Madeleine Brown

Self - former New Orleans district attorney

Jim Garrison

Self

Jack Lemmon

Director

Barbara Kopple

Director

Danny Schechter