Powell posts '50s 'selfie' to Facebook

Powell posts '50s 'selfie' to Facebook

By Blake Neff

March 13, 2014, 12:46 pm

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/200704-powell-posts-fifties-selfie-to-facebook

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.