1966-73 Walt Rostow - aide to Johnson and Kennedy Senator J. W. Fulbright - chairman of Foreign Relations Committee Former Cpt. Randy Floyd Jerry Holter and Charles Hoey - USAF pilots J. Edgar Hoover Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Former Cpl. Stan Holder Former 1st Lt. Bobby Muller (now wheelchair-bound) Kay Dvorshock - Bobby Muller's girlfriend Daniel Ellsberg - former aide Defense Dept. (Rand Corporation) General William Westmoreland - Commanding General Vietnam 1964-68 Nguyen Van Toi - Vietnamese man Vo Thi Hue and Vo Thi Tu - Vietnamese sisters Father Chan Tin of Saigon Diem Chau - editor of Trinh Bay magazine David Emerson of Concord, Massachusetts - father of dead pilot Mui Duc Giang - Vietnamese coffin maker Former Specialist 5 Edward Sowders - army deserter Mrs Lora Sowders - mother of Edward Sowders Barton Osbern - former Army Intelligence Officer, CIA Sgt. George Trendell of Fort Dix New Jersey Thich Lieu Minh of the An Quang Pagoda, Saigon Former Sgt. William Marshall of Detroit Colonel George Patton IV Duong Van Khai - refugee Nguyen Ngoc-Linh - chairman of Mekong Conglomerate, former Cabinet Minister in South Vietnam Mike Sulsana - amputee (voice of) I. F. Stone - journalist Senator Eugene McCarthy Senator Robert F. Kennedy Ngo Dinh Diem - President of South Vietnam 1955-63 General Nguyen Khanh - President of South Vietnam 1964-65 General Maxwell Taylor - ambassador to South Vietnam 1964-65 Nguyen Thi Sau - former political prisoner (F) Ngo Ba Thanh - political prisoner Mary Cochran Emerson - mother of dead pilot Vu Duc Vinh - North Vietnamese bombing victim Critical reception Hearts and Minds has attracted widely polarized opinions from film critics since its release. Reviewers commonly consider it either a masterpiece of political/documentary filmmaking or a propagandistic hatchet job on the Vietnam War, with some viewing it as both. A mixture of mostly contemporary film critic reviews on the review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of the 40 film critic reviews they tallied were positive with an average critics score of 8.31 out of 10. Vietnam War films from the 1960s to the 1970s reflected deep divisions at home over the war. Some reflected pro-war sentiments and vilified anti-war protesters, while others stood at the opposite end and criticized government officials and policies. Hearts and Minds was one of the first of the latter to be produced and released before the war's end in