"Assault At West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker" 1994 TV-Movie

A rare historical Showtime made-for-cable docudrama about Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880. An excellent cast - starring Samuel L. Jackson as Richard Greener, Sam Waterston as Daniel Chamberlain, Mason Adams as Henry D. Hyde, Eddie Bracken as Major Charles T. Alexander, Seth Gilliam as Johnson Whittaker, Al Freeman, Jr. as Old Johnson Whittaker and John Glover as Major Asa Bird Gardiner.

Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (August 23, 1858 – January 14, 1931) was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. When at the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. Over sixty years after his death, his name was formally cleared when he was posthumously commissioned by President Bill Clinton in July 1995.

This film is special to me for several reasons: I'm an actor in the film (as a "Cadet" and getting my first SAG credit) and this was the first picture I worked on as part of the crew - working on the film for a month in the summer of 1993 while they filmed on location in Lexington and at VMI. It was a great first film experience and it set me on my current course. It was also very cool to work with Samuel L. Jackson between his roles in "Jurassic Park" and "Pulp Fiction." None of us knew he was going to be THAT Samuel L. Jackson some day.

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