Episode Detail: The Andersonville Trial - Hollywood Television Theatre
“The Andersonville Trial,” an Emmy-winning courtroom drama directed by George C. Scott. The play re-creates the 1865 war crimes trial of Confederate captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the squalid Andersonville, Ga., POW camp where 13,000 Union prisoners died of starvation and disease. Lt. Col. N.P. Chipman: William Shatner. Otis Baker: Jack Cassidy. Henry Wirz: Richard Basehart. Dr. John Bates: Buddy Ebsen. James Gray: Albert Salmi. Davidson: Michael Burns. Chandler: Harry Townes. Wallace: Cameron Mitchell. Spencer: John Anderson. Williams: Martin Sheen. Dr. Ford: Whit Bissell.
