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Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (August 23, 1858 – January 14, 1931) [1] was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. [2] When at the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. [ 3 ]
Assault at West Point is a 1994 Showtime made-for-cable drama film about Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point, and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880. The film features Samuel L. Jackson, who portrays a lawyer who defends Whittaker.
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker’s tumultuous cadet experience was the subject of the Showtime movie “Assault at West Point: The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker” based on a book by John ...
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker: 1881 Born into slavery; expelled after board of inquiry and court-martial {falsely} convicted him of staging an assault on his own person; verdict overturned by President Chester Arthur-but Whittaker still expelled on grounds he failed a exam.
In 1880, one of the first black cadets at West Point, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, was assaulted by three fellow cadets, but administrators at the Academy said he had faked the attack. After a year of inquests and hearings including the attention of the United States Congress , Whittaker was court-martialed , with Gardiner as prosecutor ...
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker: Shown as a flashback (narrative), the film retraces when, in 1880, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets at West Point, is assaulted by three white cadets. The academy instead court-martials Whittaker in the belief that he staged his own attack ...
He was associate counsel of Jeremiah M. Wilson in the defense of Samuel L. Perry and of Martin I. Townsend in the defense of Johnson Chesnut Whittaker in a court of inquiry in April and May 1880 where Towsend and Greener successfully gained Whittaker release and the granting of a court-martial.
James Chesnut Jr. (January 18, 1815 – February 1, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician, ... Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (1858–1931), ...