Rodney King as Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)

Ted Koppel as Self (archive footage)

Edward James Olmos as Self (archive footage)

Maxine Waters as Self (archive footage)

Tom Bradley as Self (archive footage)

Danny Bakewell Sr. as Self (archive footage)

Soon Ja Du as Self (archive footage)

Daryl Gates as Self (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw as Self (archive footage)

John Drummond Barnett as Self (archival footage)

Henry Alfaro as Self - KABC Reporter (archive footage)

Danny Bakewell Sr. as Self - Civl Rights Activist (archive footage)

Bart Bartholomew as Self (archive footage)

Michael Bostic as Self - LAPD Commander (archive footage)

Theodore Briseno as Self - Defendant (archive footage)

Edward Chang as Self - Black-Korean Alliance (archive footage)

Reginald Denny as Self (archive footage)

John Ferraro as Self - Council President District 4 (archive footage)

Tim Goldman as Self (archive footage)

Jesse Jackson as Self (archive footage)

David Joo as Self (archive footage)

Joyce Karlin as Self - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge (archive footage)

Stacey Koon as Self - Defendant (archive footage)

Charles Manson as Self (archive footage)

Antoine Miller as Self (archive footage)

Darryl Mounger as Self - Attorney for Stacey Koon (archive footage)

Charles Muhammad as Self - Nation of Islam (archive footage)

Tom Newsome as Self - Civil Rights Attorney (archive footage)

W.H. Parker as Self - LAPD Chief (archive footage)

Laurence Powell as Self - Defendant (archive footage)

Eric 'Rico' Reed as Self - KJLH Radio (archive footage)

Ramona Ripston as Self - ACLU (archive footage)

John Shabazz as Self - Minister (archive footage)

Sirhan Sirhan as Self (archive footage)

Rita Walters as Self - City Councilmember (archive footage)

Henry Keith Watson as Self (archive footage)

Terry White as Self - Prosecutor (archive footage)

Damian 'Football' Williams as Self (archive footage)

Gary Williams as Self (archive footage)

Pete Wilson as Self - Governor of California (archive footage)

Timothy Wind as Self - Defendant (archive footage)

Zev Yaroslavsky as Self - City Councilmember (archive footage)