Jack Dawson

Jack Dawson (1892 – 15 April 1912) was an English artist who became one of the victims of sinking of RMS Titanic. He became well known for relation with Rose Dewitt Bukater, a first class passenger on the same vessel. The affair between Dawson and Bukateer became a subject of media coverage after Bukateer related her memoirs.

Early Life
Jack Dawson was born near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1892. Dawson's parents died when he was 15 in a fire, which resulted in him having to begin living on his own and later travel the world. While growing up, he travelled to various cities along the globe, inculding Monterey, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and Paris.

Life on Titanic
Jack Dawson boarded the RMS Titanic in on April 10, 1912 after winning tickets in a game of poker against two other men with tickets alongside his friend, Fabrizio De Rossi.

While on board, Jack found Rose DeWitt Bukater, a first-class passenger, attempting suicide by jumping off the stern. Dawson reportedly coerced Bukater to change his mind, and ended up saving her regardless when she slipped.

According to Bukater, Dawson and her formed a love affair, much to the protest of her family and fiancé

Titanic's disaster
During the sinking of the Titanic, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater helped one another as well as other passengers in exiting from the lower decks of the cruiser.

Dawson died from hypothermia on the night of the Titanic's accident, protecting Dewitt Bukater by having her float on a doorframe while he stayed in the water.

Legacy
Dawson was mainly focused in Bukateer's account of the Tragedy of RMS Titanic and had become synonymous with it. The relationship between DeWitt and Dawson became to great media coverage in 1997, due to contrasting nature of the lovers. Journalist Adam Tenaucci of FNS described it as "the romantic and fun nature of their four-days relationship, the one of a third-class vagabond with a first-class aristocratic woman, had an important impact on the public, remembering myths recorded in the collective unconscious such as Romeo and Juliet." Reportedly, a film adaptation by director James Cameron is in works.