Powell posts '50s 'selfie' to Facebook
By Blake Neff
March 13, 2014, 12:46 pm
Former Secretary of State Colin
Powell uploaded a 60-year-old “selfie” of himself to Facebook on Thursday morning, taken decades before the practice
would become a social media phenomenon.
“I was doing selfies 60 years
before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen!” said the retired general,
in reference to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who promotes a “Throwback
Thursday” event encouraging people to post old photographs.
The photograph is a simple one,
showing Powell simply standing in front of a large bedroom mirror with a
neutral expression on his face.
If Powell is dating the photo
accurately, it would date to 1954, when the general was 16 years old and about
to graduate from Morris High School in the Bronx, New York.
Just two hours after the photo was
uploaded it had accumulated over 33,000 Facebook “likes” and 8,000 shares.
Colin Powell
Colin
L. Powell was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, the chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and
his son is Michael K. Powell.
Note: John F. Kerry is the
secretary at the U.S. Department of
State for the Barack Obama
administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
William
A. Owens was the vice chairman for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is the COO & director for Facebook.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the International
Rescue Committee, the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Michael K. Powell
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and Colin L. Powell’s son.
James E.
Cartwright is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was the vice chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Edmund P.
Giambastiani Jr. is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was the vice chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Joseph W. Ralston
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States
(think tank), and was the vice chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Colin
L. Powell is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, his son
is Michael K. Powell, was the
chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and the secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
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