Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles

No idea. News anchor?

Yes, a reporter who made a few important interviews and visits.

Of Polish heritage then, perhaps?

Of course. Her father became famous after she retold his story to people .

Rita Cosby - I cheated :)

Now mine is interesting and really vaguely connected to Poland but still :D

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Yes, Rita Cosby, her father was a Polish Warsaw insurgent Kossobudzki, she published his story.

Yours looks like a singer to me. Of course not Tina Turner, but another one. :) Janet Jackson has similar hairdo but it isn`t her.

While we're still on the subject, her former radio host, Curtis Sliwa, is half-Polish, half-Italian/Sicilian! Current replacement, Juliette Huddy's half Polish too.

:-)

I can't believe no one mentioned Ted Kaczynski and Kuklisnki yet....

Ted Knight simply translated the Polish word for his last name into English:-)
He was though somewhat sensitive regarding 'Polish jokes'.
Once on Carson way back in the '80's, he appeared on the show alongside Buddy Hackett,
who typically made some sort of gaff and asked the show's host if he could tell this great
Polish joke he'd just heard, to which Ted Knight sharply retorted (although keeping up a
winning smile and calm), "Why don't you tell it in Polish?"

Buddy Hackett looked kind of chagrinned and ended up changing the subject.

Oh, you are as impatient as a young male on the third date. :):) Come on, we have plenty of time, one at a time, not all of them packed into one post.

Whenever I heard the name of this man on the radio, I smiled.

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George Peppard played a Polish-American detective in an older TV series once, and even he caught a lot of nasty flack for the character being Polish.

Banacek I remember it well , the opening scene was him rowing a boat .

Are you talking about my last photo? If so, then no. It isn`t Peppard aka Banaczek.
Hint - I said: on the radio.

Yes, that was the series! It prompted one reviewer unfortunately to remark, that it seemed as though
the new breed of TV detectives all had some handicap, in the case of Columbo, it was his eyesight, in the case of Banaczek,
his being Polish was enough of a handicapLOL

This jibe wasn't funny back then, and it isn't funny now either.

So, the last picture is Peter Cetera, a singer with Polish roots, first in the band Chicago, then solo career. . Whenever I heard his name on the radio decades ago, I smiled cause it reminded me of a setter, dog breed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cetera

PS. Explanation - historic or historical doesn`t mean those people should be dead. Living ones are also worth talking about, but they must be known, of course.

Who is she?

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Why is this grey haired American man in Poland?

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A Jewish-American millionaire sniffing around for reparations, of course.

Every. Single. Time.

Yes, Bob Sanders. :)

Hello, welcome back. Again unregistered? Family traditions? :)

Bernie's family traditions? The running joke is that he spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union (literally) and never came back! :)

Oh, but you say that he is a critic of Putin and Russia (just like you)! :)

Yes, he is a critic of Putin and Russia but not Stalin and the USSR (just like you)! :)

No, you misunderstood me. I meant strong family traditions of yours when you regularly come back under various nicks and always unregistered, my dear, originally known as ShtonBrits. hahaha

I was so engaged in conversation with our temperamental friend that I forgot to add that Bob Sander`s father was a Polish Jew emigree 100 years ago.

@pawian
The photo I posted was of Oprah. She was born in a town called Kosciusko -or something like that; )

Who's the lady in the black and white photo?

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Hot lips :)

@Lenka
Yes :)

I read her family's Polish name was originally Szwed - I wonder if they wanted to translate it to Swede and ended up with Swit; )

Looking for a photo of hers I came across an article where she says her grandma would say dużo rosnij and that makes me wonder if she doesn't remember it well or if her grandma already spoke 'American Polish' -thinking of all the bushas over there.

Do you recognise that guy with Polish roots?

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He committed a peculiar crime. Some people condemned and other praised him for that. Was sentenced to death but died before the execution.

It looks like the guy who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Was he called Jack Ruby, a sort of gangster?

What about this guy? Something in common with Ruby, and also with roots in Poland...

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Poles despise Bernie Sanders. His family took out a bunch of loans, screwed a bunch of people over and ran off to the USA. Very typical of the tiny hat tribe.


Third date? Seriously rofl!!! Way too long - again... that's pedestal type thinking...

Yes! His parents were Jews born in Poland.


Leon Czołgosz, killed president McKinley.


Which Poles?

Here's another famous Polish-American. Do you know who it is?

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