On screen
Cast
88 credited performers
Walter Cronkite
Self - Host
Denver Pyle
William Newell
Russ Conway
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Harlan Warde
Col. John Glover
Noel Drayton
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Mack Williams
Critical Young Man
Tyler McVey
Teamster
Lomax Study
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Robin Hughes
Admiral Reginald Hall
Edward Earle
General Marcy
Peter Brocco
Trebonius
John Larch
Miner 1
Roy Engel
Henry D. Ford
DeForest Kelley
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Earl Brown
Sheriff Campbell
Jeff Morrow
President Abraham Lincoln
Jerry Paris
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Herbert Rudley
Sam Adams
Michael Pate
Marcus Brutus
Charles Watts
Sampson Salter Blowers
John Doucette
Sam Gray
Barry Atwater
Louis Braille
Robert Karnes
The Sergeant
Marshall Bradford
Character not listed
Howard Wendell
Congressman John Adams
Bing Russell
Lendall Pitts
Vivi Janiss
Wife
Charles Meredith
Ambassador Walter Hines Page
Parley Baer
Henry Janis
Robert Bray
Miner 2
Ian Wolfe
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Roger Davis
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Barbara Billingsley
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Mort Mills
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Paul Collins
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Paul Birch
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Mary Shipp
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Fred Gwynne
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Russell Johnson
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Lurene Tuttle
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Bernard Kates
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Philip Bosco
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Willis Bouchey
William C. Ralston
Hector Elias
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James Dean
Bob Ford
Tom Gorman
Hewes
Juano Hernández
Montezuma
James Kelly
Character not listed
Tommy Cook
Soldier
Robert Foulk
Minister
Roy Roberts
Dr. Dunn
Robert Vaughn
Soldier
Marius Goring
Oliver Cromwell
Alan Wheatley
King Charles I
Claude Akins
Mob participant
John Alderson
First Soldier
Whit Bissell
John Adams
Roy Glenn
Crispus Attucks
Henry Jones
William Savage
Gene Lyons
Francis Rotch
Joe Maross
Lendall Pitts
E.G. Marshall
Samuel Adams
George Sawaya
Mark Antony
Burt Mustin
An Old Man
Robert Culp
Fabius
Robert F. Simon
Rev. Byron Sunderland
Charles Seel
Quincey
Carolyn Jones
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Ernest Sarracino
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John Wengraf
Dr. Zimmerman
Robert Burton
Secretary of State Lansing
Betty Lou Gerson
Woman from Texas
Jack Mower
Congressman
Robert Lansing
William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State
Stanley Blystone
Passerby (uncredited)
Pat Conway
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Ellen Corby
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Cyril Delevanti
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Addison Richards
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Hayden Rorke
Bud Wilson
William Boyett
Col. Knox
Paul Bryar
Miner 3
Frank Cady
John Stark
Joe Di Reda
James Gardner
Lester Matthews
Ganzel
Dan Riss
George McClellan
Emmett Vogan
Horace Greeley
Will Wright
Philip Arnold