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Dick Cavett's Vietnam Press Contact: Donna Williams 212-560-8030 [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/wnet-thirteen Twitter: @ThirteenNY Dick Cavett’s Vietnam Premieres nationally Monday, April 27, 10-11 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), as part of a special block of programming related to the Vietnam War. Film Interviewees (in alphabetical order) New Interviews for Dick Cavett’s Vietnam Dick Cavett , iconic talk show host, author, columnist Wesley K. Clark , General United States Army (retired) Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam Timothy Naftali , historian/author and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Classic Interviews from “The Dick Cavett Show” Muhammad Ali , professional boxer Woody Allen , actor/writer/director Warren Beatty , actor/producer Daniel Ellsberg , lecturer, writer, activist and former United States military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers Jane Fonda , actor Barry Goldwater , United States Senator (R-Arizona) Reverend Billy Graham , evangelist General Alexander Haig , Deputy National Security Advisor 1970-75 David Halberstam , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, The Best and The Brightest Hubert Humphrey , Vice President of the United States, 1965-69 Jefferson Airplane , rock band performing Volunteers John Kerry , decorated Vietnam veteran and now Secretary of State Herb Klein , White House Director of Communications 1969-73 Henry Kissinger , assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1969-73, Secretary of State 1973-77 Groucho Marx , comedian/film and television star Robert Mueller , Vietnam veteran Wayne Morse , United States Senator (D-Oregon), one of only two senators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which allowed President Johnson to engage U.S. troops without a formal declaration of war Edmund Muskie , United States Senator (R-Maine) Paul Newman , actor John O’Neill , Vietnam veteran Michael Sharp , Vietnam veteran Dr. George Solomon , United States Veteran’s Administration I.F. Stone , journalist Mel Tormé, singer Michael Vacquera , Vietnam veteran Archival News Footage Walter Cronkite , anchor CBS Evening News , called by many “the most trusted man in America” Dwight D. Eisenhower , 34 th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson , 36 th President of the United States John F. Kennedy , 35 th President of the United Sates Robert McNamara , United States Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 Richard M. Nixon , 37 th President of the United States Howard K. Smith, co-anchor ABC Evening News Harry S. Truman , 33 rd President of the United States Audio recording of conversations between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara President Richard M. Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger ### Final 03.17.15 .
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