| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Barbara Kopple | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer |
 Christopher Burke | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
Danny Schechter | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer |
 Daphne Pinkerson | Crew | Production | Associate Producer |
 Marc Levin | Crew | Production | Producer |
Shelly Silver | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Gwynne Thomas | Crew | Production | Supervising Producer |
Stuart Sender | Crew | Production | Producer |
Philip Dixon | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Bruce Follmer | Crew | Editing | Supervising Editor |
Bill Davis | Crew | Production | Producer, Editor, Title Graphics |
Dena Mermelstein | Crew | Editing | Associate Editor |
Brian Peter Falk | Crew | Production | Associate Producer |
 Dwight D. Eisenhower | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Ed Asner | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Fidel Castro | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Gary Oldman | Cast | Actor | Self |
 George H. W. Bush | Cast | Actor | Self (voice) (archive footage) |
Ike Pappas | Cast | Narrator / Self | |
 J. Edgar Hoover | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Jack Lemmon | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Jacqueline Kennedy | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
 Jim Garrison | Cast | Self - Former New Orleans District Attorney | |
 Jim Marrs | Cast | Actor | Self - Author, "Crossfire" |
 John F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Kevin Costner | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Lee Harvey Oswald | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Nikita Khrushchev | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Oliver North | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Oliver Stone | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Richard Nixon | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Robert F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Sissy Spacek | Cast | Actress | Self |
Tom Wicker | Cast | Actor | Self - New York Times |
 Tommy Lee Jones | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Walter Cronkite | Cast | Actor | Self - CBS News |
 Walter Matthau | Cast | Actor | Self |
Zachary Sklar | Cast | Self | |
Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill | Cast | Actor | Self - Former House Speaker |
 Ted Koppel | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Robert MacNeil | Cast | Actor | Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS |
David Duke | Cast | Actor | Self |
Numa V. Bertel Jr. | Cast | Self - Garrison Assistant | |
Madeleine Brown | Cast | Actress | Self - Mistress of Lyndon Johnson |
Jimmy Hoffa | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Marita Lorenz | Cast | Self - former CIA operative (archive footage) | |
Richard N. Goodwin | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Kennedy Aide |
L. Fletcher Prouty | Cast | Actor | Self |
Carl Oglesby | Cast | Self - Political Analyst | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
