The Most Dangerous Man in America

L’histoire

En 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, un brillant analyste employé comme consultant par le Pentagone, fait parvenir au New York Times un dossier sur la guerre du Vietnam classé secret défense. Ce document de 7000 pages révèle les mensonges d’Etat sur cette guerre. Daniel Ellsberg devient alors l’homme le plus recherché en Amérique. Henry Kissinger, alors conseiller de Nixon à la Défense nationale, le baptise “l’homme le plus dangereux des Etats-Unis”. Richard Nixon le qualifie lui de “fils de pute”. Daniel Ellsberg sera poursuivi pour vol, conspiration et espionnage.

Distribution

D Daniel EllsbergSelf (Narraror) P Patricia EllsbergSelf J John DeanSelf - White House Counsel to President Nixon H Howard ZinnSelf - Historian P Peter ArnettSelf - Associated Press Correspondent (archive footage) B Ben BagdikianSelf - Editor, Washington Post A Ann BeesonSelf - Associate Legal Director, ACLU R Robert EllsbergSelf - Daniel's Son R Richard FalkSelf - Professor of International Law M Max FrankelSelf - Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times J J. William FulbrightSelf - Chair Foreign Relations Committee (archive footage) J James GoodaleSelf - General Counsel, New York Times

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M Mike GravelSelf - Senator (D-Alaska) M Morton HalperinSelf - Supervisor, Vietnam War Study (as Mort Halperin) L Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) R Randy KehlerSelf - Draft Resister B Bud KroghSelf - Director, 'Plumbers' Unit (as Egil Krogh) P Pete McCloskeySelf - Representative, California R Robert McNamaraSelf (archive footage) W Wayne MorseSelf - Senator, Oregon (archive footage) R Richard NixonSelf - President (archive footage) T Thomas OliphantSelf - Reporter, Boston Globe (as Tom Oliphant) D Dan RatherSelf - Reporter (archive footage) T Tony RussoSelf - RAND Analyst T Thomas SchellingSelf - RAND Analyst / Nobel Laureate H Hedrick SmithSelf - Reporter, New York Times J Janaki TschannerlSelf - Peace Activist L Leonard WeinglassSelf - Russo Defense Attorney