Hurricane victim, 9, a celebrity overnight: Charles Evans endears himself to millions

Charleston Daily Mail | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

Before he stood beaming onstage at the Emmys, before his "Today" interview with Katie Couric, before people were calling him a "superstar," 9-year-old Charles Evans was just a kid from New Orleans' 9th Ward made precocious and wise by his hard-knock life.

Then, on Sept. 2, he appeared on NBC's "Nightly News" standing amid the post-Katrina garbage outside the New Orleans Convention Center, wearing a dirty SpongeBob SquarePants T-shirt, speaking directly to the camera, his face pressed close, a slight lisp evident, his assessment heartbreakingly articulate, delivered with adult poise, even a ...

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