The '60s (1999)
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.
StatusEnded
TypeMiniseries
Original LanguageEnglish
Network
Seasons
Season 1
1999 | 2 Episodes
Season 1 of The '60s premiered on February 7, 1999
Casts
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
April Mills
Constance
Marc Blucas
Buddy Wells
Jenna Byrne
Melissa
Carnie Wilson
Mama Earth
Kimberly Scott
Althea Taylor
Sara Van Horn
Sister Elisabeth
Chonique Sneed
Dancer
John C. Meier
Cop #3
David Denman
SDS Radical
Ronald William Lawrence
Civil Rights Leader #1
Monti Sharp
Civil Rights Leader #2
Brian Donovan
Chicago Delegate / Reed Student
Raynor Scheine
Sheriff
Gibbs Tolsdorf
Marine
James Arone
Father Monahan