| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Barbara Kopple | Crew | Directing | Director |
 Danny Schechter | Crew | Directing | Director |
 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 | |
 Kevin Costner | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Nikita Khrushchev | 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 |
 Tommy Lee Jones | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Walter Cronkite | Cast | Actor | Self - CBS News |
 Walter Matthau | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Ted Koppel | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Numa V. Bertel Jr. | Cast | Self | |
Madeleine Brown | Cast | Self - friend of Lyndon Johnson | |
Jimmy Hoffa | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Marita Lorenz | Cast | Self - former CIA operative (archive footage) | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
