In the Name of Security - The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

At the height of the Cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. Peter Goodchild combines dramatic re-enactments based on original trial transcripts, archival material, and the commentaries of relatives and friends of the accused.  

Directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theocaris

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Starring:

John de Lancie as Oppenheimer

William Frankfather as the Narrator

Richard Hoyt Miller as Gordon Gray

Alan Wilder as Roger Robb

Arthur Hanket as Lloyd Garrison

Tom Virtue as General Groves

Recorded at the KCRW Studios, Santa Monica in November 1997.

A co-production with the BBC.

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