Did he really exist?
6:00 PMIndia Film Project
J.Dawson
We know Jack Dawson from the Titanic, but did he really
exist? There have been no records of him even being on the ship that night,
though it is possible that he secretly snuck abroad. Rose DeWitt Bukater and
Jack Dawson are fictional characters created by James Cameron.
There was a man named J. Dawson who died aboard the Titanic,
but James Cameron did not know that he existed until AFTER he wrote the Titanic
screenplay. He did not base the Jack character on this J. Dawson person. The
man’s gravestone bears the inscription “J. Dawson,” and no one knows what the
“J” stands for. Some people believe it was Joseph or James. But who really
knows? J. Dawson could have been “Jack Dawson”.
