(in credits order)
- Donald Graham(as Don Graham)
- Osborn Elliott(archive footage)
- Ben Bradlee(archive footage)
- Jim Lehrer(archive footage)
- Meryl Streep(archive footage)
- Eugene Meyer(archive footage)
- Agnes Meyer(archive footage)
- Phil Graham(archive footage)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Ed Bradley(archive footage)
- John Chancellor(archive footage)
- Charles Colson(archive footage) (voice)
- Walter Cronkite(archive footage)
- John Ehrlichman(archive footage) (voice)
- Alexander Haig(archive footage) (voice)
- H.R. Haldeman(archive footage) (voice)
- J. Edgar Hoover(archive footage) (voice)
- Lady Bird Johnson(archive footage) (voice)
- Lyndon B. Johnson(archive footage) (voice)
- Clare Boothe Luce(archive footage)
- Henry Luce(archive footage)
- John Mitchell(archive footage) (voice)
- Roger Mudd(archive footage)
- Edward R. Murrow(archive footage)
- Richard Nixon(archive footage) (voice)
- Dan Rather(archive footage)
- Tim Russert(archive footage)
- Carole Simpson(archive footage)
- Howard K. Smith(archive footage)
- Ronald L. Ziegler(archive footage) (voice) (as Ron Ziegler)
