The '60s

Overview

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Cast

Josh Hamilton

Michael Herlihy

Julia Stiles

Katie Herlihy

Jerry O'Connell

Brian Herlihy

Jeremy Sisto

Kenny Klein

Jordana Brewster

Sarah Weinstock

Leonard Roberts

Emmet Taylor

Bill Smitrovich

Bill Herlihy

Annie Corley

Mary Herlihy

Donovan Leitch

Neal Reynolds

David Alan Grier

Fred Hampton

Charles S. Dutton

Reverend Willie Taylor

Cliff Gorman

Father Daniel Berrigan