Brian Dennehy as phony war vet.
Burkett thought he was signing on for a short project, but he ended up exposing more than 1,200 bogus Vietnam War records, including those of prominent activists, celebrated war heroes, criminals, politicians, and even a well-known actor. For years, Brian Dennehy publicly maintained he was a Vietnam combat veteran, telling a New York Times reporter in 1989 about his combat wounds, and holding forth about the brutal realities of combat in a 1993 Playboy interview. Burkett's examination of Dennehy's military records showed that during his four years on active duty his only overseas assignment was in Okinawa in 1962, and there was no record of his having ever been wounded.
Sad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dennehy
“”Later that year, Dennehy admitted to the tabloid The Globe “I lied about serving in Vietnam and I’m sorry. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. I was a peace-time Marine, and I got out in 1963 without ever serving in Vietnam. I started the story that I had been in ‘Nam, and I got stuck with it. Then I didn’t know how to set the record straight.” However, in 2007, he once again told a reporter tales of his service in the Vietnam War, this time to Glenna Whitley of the Wall Street Journal.[3]””
The name, Burkett, rang a bell. I checked & found this at:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mtwpfg
B.G. Burkett, co-author of Stolen Valor, is not to be confused with Bill Burkett who was the CBS source in the Killian (GW Bush) documents affair of 2004.
Well, then Dennehy will be perfect to play Clarence Darrow, a charlatan asshat if there ever was one.