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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