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, 34th President of the United States
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United Sates
Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States
Howard K. Smith, co-anchor ABC Evening News
Harry S. Truman, 33rd 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
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