David Sarnoff

(See Louise Benjamin articles in. In 1906 his father became incapacitated by tuberculosis and at age 15 Sarnoff went to work to support the family. As the profile done for the Museum of Broadcast Communications correctly points out by the time of the Titanic disaster in 1912 Sarnoff was in management and no longer a telegrapher; plus the event occurred on a Sunday when the store would have been closed.

Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970. David Sarnoff (Belarusian: Даві́д Сарно́ў Russian: Дави́д Сарно́в February 27 1891 – December 12 1971) was a Belarusian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television.