Who Should Play These Parts?
List of Characters
Commander Earnest Evans
- the thirty six year old Cherokee Indian and family man desperate to get home. He is the Captain of the Destroyer USS JOHNSTON.
Charles Jefferson
- the newly minted 19 year old black steward of Captain Evans
Old Jefferson
- the now 87 year old Charles Jefferson currently living in a retirement home in Rancho Bernardo CA.
Margaret Evans
- wife of Captain Evans.
Robert Copeland
- the Captain of the destroyer escort USS SAMUEL ROBERTS and friend of Captain Evans.
Rear Admiral Clifton “Ziggy” Sprague
- commander of task force 77.4.3 (Taffy 3).
Captain Mike Pritchard
- Admiral Sprague’s Chief of Staff and protagonist of Captain Evans.
1st Class Gunner’s Mate John Beauregard
- the highly prejudiced southern Gun-Mount Captain and protagonist to the blacks. He will not allow them to fire, practice on or even touch the JOHNSTON’S five inch guns.
John Grey, RL Leonard and Abe Jones
- the three black mess hands on the JOHNSTON.
Phil Ackerman (aka “Cookie”)
- the white cook and torpedo man who is good friends with the blacks. He’s married with a little daughter he has never met.
Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita
- Commander of the Huge, Japanese Center Force
Scuttlebutt
- the small pet dog of Captain Copeland on the SAMUEL ROBERTS.