Jewish American Heritage Month
2019 Theme: Jewish American Illustrators
Jewish illustrator Rube Goldberg sketched President Harry S. Truman at the White House with a group of visiting cartoonists. Goldberg is at the far right. Those holding up drawings are, from left to right: Ham Fisher (partly cut off), Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, Jo Fischer (over Truman's left shoulder), Alfred Andriola (bow tie, next to Truman), Ray Van Buren (next to Fischer), John Pieretti, and Goldberg. All others are unidentified. (Harry S. Truman Library, National Archives Identifier 7865597)
Rube Goldberg is best known for his drawings of complicated gadgets. During World War II, he drew a concept for a new kind of "war machine." (National Archives Identifier 534875)
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Singer Eddie Cantor (center) sits next to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at a dinner of the Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Boston, MA, May 25, 1950. Also seated (left to right): Frank Leahy and Paul Devers. (National Archives Identifier 196768)
Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (National Archives Identifier 542050)
Olympic gold medalist swimmer Mark Spitz (far right) with Suzy Spitz, President Gerald Ford, and First Lady Betty Ford, October 7, 1976. (Gerald R. Ford Library, National Archives Identifier 45644231)