The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and the way the Washington Post fought the federal government to publish them.

Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George Wilson.

Recorded before a live audience in the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in March, 1991.

Aimed by Tom Moore about Top Secret: The Fight for the Pentagon Papers (1991)

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Philip Abbot while Chal Roberts

Irene Arranga as Bailiff/Clerk

Edward Asner mainly because Ben Bradlee

Ed Begley, Jr. as George Wilson

Jack Coleman as Eugene Patterson/Carl Coogan

Richard Dysart as Narrator

Hector Elizondo while Fritz Beebee

Bo Foxworth simply because The Soldier

Robert Foxworth seeing that Ben Bagdikian

Robin Gammell mainly because Murray Marder

Gerrit Graham as Robert Mardian

Howard Hesseman simply because Brian Sullivan

Stacy Keach as John Mitchell

Darrell Larson simply because Darryl Cox

Nan Martin as Meg Greenfield

Marsha Mason as Katherine Graham

Richard Riehle as Lamont Vanderhall

Harry Shearer while Richard Nixon

Joe Spano while Ron Ziegler

James Whitmore while Judge Martin Peel

Harris Yulin as Henry Kissinger

Stage Manager and SOUND FILES, Barnaby Harris. Documenting Engineer, Steve Barker.