| 1 | Raymond | Leroy | The arresting officer. |
| | Gene | Taliaferrro | Leroy's partner. |
| | Martin | Luther-King | American
Baptist minister. AKA: Dr. King. |
| 2 | John Robert | Lee | Protagonist. |
| | Lucy | Lee | Jack's retarded sister. |
| 3 | Hilda | Lee | Jack's mother. AKA: Hilly. |
| | Walter | Cronkite | An American broadcast journalist. |
| | Sirhan | | The man who killed JFK's brother. |
| | Ronald | Ashby | A retired lawyer. A neighbor of the Lees. |
| | Miss | Jessup | Ashby's maid. Jerome's grandmother-in-law. |
| 4 | Jeff | Lee | Jack's brother. |
| | Mrs. | Ashby | Mr. Ashby's wife. |
| 5 | Francis | Lee | Jack's father. |
| 6 | Louis | Sherman | Miss Jessup's neighbor. |
| | Daniel | | Miss Jessup's neighbor. |
| 7 | Maggie | Jessup | Miss Jessup's daughter. |
| | Pearl | Jessup | Maggie's daughter. |
| | Jerome | Washington | Pearl's husband. |
| 9 | George | Connelly | Jerome's other lawyer. |
| | Leslie | Randolph | Jerome's employer. |
| | Anne | Randolph | Mr. Leslie's wife. |
| | Christine | Randolph | Leslie and Anne's daughter. |
| | Elijah | Washington | Pearl and Jerome's daughter. |
| | Kayla | Washington | Pearl and Jerome's daughter. |
| | Darala | Washington | Pearl and Jerome's daughter. |
| | Jean | Washington | Pearl and Jerome's daughter. |
| | Robert | Carter | One of the wealthy American colonists. |
| | Lord | Fairfax | A wealthy American. |
| | Mrs. | Gooch | A librarian. |
| | Homer | | Jack's acquaintance. |
| 11 | Sally | Reeves | The clerk of the court. |
| 12 | Justin | Reed | The commonwealth's attorney. |
| 13 | Edmund | Battle | The attorney general of Virginia. |
| 14 | Gordon | Hanover | President of Virginia Trust Bank. Christine's husband. |
| | Sam | Randolph | The Randolph's oldest son. |
| | Howard | Pickett | Wallace's principal backer. |
| | George | Wallace | A Governor of Alabama. |
| 18 | Cora | Robinson | The Randolph's housekeeper. |
| 24 | Desiree | Dubose | Jack's co-counsel. |
| | Bill | Coleman | The first black man to clerk at Supreme Court. |
| | Frankfurter | | The Supreme court justice in 1948. |
| | Earl | Warren | Chief Justice. |
| 25 | Amy | | Jack's old friend. |
| | Douglas | Rawlins | A lawyer at McGuire firm. |
| 27 | Malcolm | Bliley | The chief judge. |
| 28 | Hubert | Humphrey | A democratic candidate. |
| 30 | Curtis | Gates | An old-school trust and estate lawyer. |
| 34 | Donny | Peppers | Jack's friend. |
| 35 | Shirley | Peppers | Donny's wife. |
| 36 | Cheryl | Miller | A news reporter. |
| 39 | Mrs. | Robinson | One of the witnesses. |
| 40 | Tyler | Dobbs | The gardener. |
| 44 | Queenie | | Jack's dog. |
| 46 | Craig | Baker | The divorce lawyer for Anne Randolph. |
| | Joseph | Browder | A regular doctor. |
| 50 | Angela | Burton | Janice's landlady. |
| | Janice | Evans | Angela's tenant. |
| | Chet | Huntley | A news reporter. |
| | David | Brinkley | A news reporter. |
| 54 | Father | Kelly | The priest. |
| 60 | Big | Mike | The plumber |
| 62 | Mr. | Runnel | A mechanic. A potential juror. |
| 64 | Isaac | Taylor | The doctor who delivered Hilly. |
| | Joshua | Taylor | Isaac's son. |
| 81 | Linda | Drucker | One of the witnesses. |
| 82 | Walter | Gates | Curtis Gates' son. |
| 84 | Peter | Clancy | The alderman that Dubose and Jack met. |
| 87 | Patsy | | Christine's maid. |
