Throughout its history, millions of immigrants have landed at America’s shores. Their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor including agriculture, industry, and the service trades, but within the great immigrant migration to America there also came gutsy and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional talents have gone on to win worldly renown, and their names have lived on in history.

Ellis Island’s Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and records their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within Ellis Island’s records include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Etorre Boiardi; painters Arshile Gorky and Joseph Stella; authors Isaac Asimov and Ludwig Bemelmans; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; Hollywood actors Claudette Colbert, Rudolph Valentino, and Bob Hope; sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller; and Supreme Court jurist Felix Frankfurter.

You do not always have to be an artist or a dreamer to make a contribution to our American culture. Abraham Zapruder was simply at the right place and at the right time to make one of the most historical contributions to our society in the twentieth century.

Zapruder, born in Ukraine, immigrated with his family to the United States in 1920 settling in Brooklyn, New York. In 1941, following a job offer by a friend, Zapruder moved to Dallas to work for Nardis, a local sportswear company. He was a supporter of the Democratic Party and an admirer of President John F. Kennedy. When he learned that Kennedy’s motorcade would pass through Dealey Plaza, he filmed the procession with one of the latest Bell and Howell 8mm cameras. His film captured the assassination of the President and has become one of the most studied pieces of film in history. The film became an essential part of the Warren Commission Hearings.

The United States no longer processes immigrants through Ellis Island. The immigration laws have changed through the years, and it is much harder to immigrate to America today than it was in the days of the famous Ellis Island immigrants mentioned in this story.

Whether you live in Dallas, or outside the United States wanting to live in Dallas, you may be interested in immigrating to America to be a citizen or in becoming a permanent resident. Who knows, maybe you, your relative, or someone you know who wants to be a legal resident in the United States may make the next significant historical contribution to American society just like Abraham Zapruder.

If you are having a difficult time understanding our complicated immigration laws, you need legal counsel. Make this the right time and the right place in history by contacting us right now at www.immigrationlawstation.com, and we will help you find an immigration lawyer in your area who will answer any legal questions you may have about immigration law.