Overview - 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

• Name: Josh Hamilton

  Character: Michael Herlihy

  Popularity: 1.3178

  

• Name: Julia Stiles

  Character: Katie Herlihy

  Popularity: 3.7405

  

• Name: Jerry O'Connell

  Character: Brian Herlihy

  Popularity: 2.0758

  

• Name: Jeremy Sisto

  Character: Kenny Klein

  Popularity: 1.9015

  

• Name: Jordana Brewster

  Character: Sarah Weinstock

  Popularity: 2.6991

  

• Name: Leonard Roberts

  Character: Emmet Taylor

  Popularity: 1.0893

  

• Name: Bill Smitrovich

  Character: Bill Herlihy

  Popularity: 1.5402

  

• Name: Annie Corley

  Character: Mary Herlihy

  Popularity: 0.6071