Now for a really weird picture of improbables

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Joe DiMaggio, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump - Trump and Bryant?

Why in the hell would Trump be given a Medal for and in such company?

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1. You forgot Rosa Parks.

Joe DiMaggio, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, and Donald Trump pose for a photograph after receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor October 27, 1986 in New York City.

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2. Anita Bryant

a Selma girl - with all the "right" feelings

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3. The award was given to people who were immigrants or the descendants of immigrants

80 NAMED AS RECIPIENTS OF ELLIS ISLAND AWARDS
Published: October 16, 1986

Eighty Americans from 42 ethnic groups were named yesterday as recipients of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.

The medals will be presented to the recipients, all either naturalized or native Americans, at a ceremony Oct. 27 on Ellis Island. That is the day before the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, the final event of the 1986 Liberty Centennial observances.

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Those named yesterday were selected from more than 15,000 nominations. The winners, a mixture of prominent and relatively unknown citizens, were screened by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, which was selected for the work by the foundation.

These are the winners, by ancestry and present or former profession or occupation: Muhammad Ali, African-American, boxer. Charles Allen, English, broker. Michel C. Bergerac, French, businessman. Dr. C. Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian, surgeon. Victor Borge, Danish, entertainer. Joe Bowen, Welsh, contractor. John Brademas, Greek, educator. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish, educator. Anita Bryant, Native American, entertainer. Curtis L. Carlson, Swedish, executive. Cesar Chavez, Mexican, labor leader. Mildred Imach Cleghorn, Native American, activist. Claudette Colbert, French, actress. Walter Cronkite, Dutch, journalist. Edward J. DeBartolo, Italian, developer. John Denver, German, singer. Joe DiMaggio, Italian, baseball player. Lev. E. Dobriansky, Ukrainian, diplomat. Christopher J. Dodd, Irish, poltician. Kirk Douglas, Russian, actor. Alex Esclamato, Philippine, publisher. Archbishop Patrick P. Flores, Mexican, cleric. Erik J. Friis, Norwegian, activist. A. Bartlett Giamatti, Italian, educator. Roberto C. Goizueta, Cuban, executive. Dr. Vartan Gregorian, Armenian, librarian. Jon Hanson, Austrian, developer. Helen Hayes, Irish, actress. John F. Henning, Irish, labor leader. Benjamin Hooks, African-American, activist. Dolores Reade Hope, Irish, philanthropist. K. P. Hwang, Korean, executive. Archbishop Iakovos, Greek, cleric. Daniel K. Inouye, Japanese-American, politician. Tyyni Kalervo, Finnish, restaurateur. Dr. George S. Kanahele, Hawaiian-American, educator. Dr. Har Gobind Khorana, Asian-Indian, educator. Coretta Scott King, African-American, activist. John W. Kluge, German, executive. John Cardinal Krol, Polish, cleric. Frank Lausche, Yugoslav, politician. Jean MacArthur, English, philanthropist. The Rev. Douglas Lachlan MacLean, Scottish, theologian. Dr. Herbert P. MacNeal, Scottish, physician. Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Armenian, cleric. Aloysius A. Mazewski, Polish, activist. Dr. Matthew Mestrovic, Croatian, activisit. Carlos Montoya, Spanish, guitarist. Prof. Gabriel Nahas, French, pharmacologist. Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovak, athlete. Michael Novak, Slovak, writer. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, French, editor. Arnold Palmer, Scottish, athlete. Milan Panic, Yugoslav, executive. Dr. Antonia Pantoja, Puerto Rican, social worker. Rosa Parks, African-American, activist. Gregory Peck, English, actor. John Petlica, Czechoslovak, broadcaster. Milton Petrie, Russian, philanthropist. Orville Prestholdt, Norwegian, Government official. Claire Quintal, Canadian, educator. Louise Rodrigues, Portuguese, teacher. Peter Rona, Hungarian, banker. Mirielle Rostad, Belgian, nurse. Paul Sanchez, Puerto Rican, labor leader. Domenick S. Scaglione, Italian, banker. Prof. Leo Schelbert, Swiss, educator. The Rev. Wallace R. Schulz, German, cleric. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Swedish, scientist. Elsbeth M. Seewald, German, activist. Alexander Spanos, Greek, executive. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, German, publisher. Dr. Zoltan Szaz, Hungarian, lobbyist. James Tamer, Lebanese, activist. Donald J. Trump, German, developer. Dr. Andrew Udvardy, Hungarian, activist. Barbara Walters, Rumanian, broadcaster. Andy Williams, Welsh, singer. Dr. Vera von Wiren-Garczynski, Russian, educator. Prof. Chien-Shung Wu, Chinese, physicist.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/16/nyregion/80-named-as-recipients-of-ellis-island-awards.html

The names in bold are those I recognized/found interesting. Overall the list seems to be a cross-section of American personalities in the late 1980s.