Colin Powell’s vintage selfies from the 1950s reappear

Colin Powell once boasted that he was decades ahead of the “selfie” game after sharing on Facebook a vintage photograph he took in the 1950s.

The black-and-white snap Powell took of himself and posed in front of a mirror that reappeared Monday in the wake of his death due to COVID-19 complications.

Powell, a retired four-star general and the United States’ first black secretary of state, had posted the picture on Facebook in 2014 as a “recurring Thursday.”

Colin Powell posted this 1954 photo of herself the day after Ellen posted a selfie with lots of actors on the A-list at the Oscars in 2014 and had the caption “Eat your heart out Ellen!”

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The picture – taken with a film camera – shows Powell looking solemn as he stands in a bedroom.

“I made selfies 60 years before you Facebook people,” Powell added.

He had uploaded the vintage snap just days after Ellen DeGeneres posted her famous Oscars superstar selfie posing alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt.

“Eat your heart out Ellen!” Powell added along with his photo.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died on October 18, 2021 due to complications of COVID-19.

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Hordes of people started sharing Powell’s vintage selfie on Twitter on Monday as they paid tribute to him after his death.

The 84-year-old died as a result of complications from COVID-19, and his family said he was fully vaccinated.

“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died this morning from complications from Covid 19. He was completely vaccinated,” his family said in a statement on Facebook.

Colin Powell (right) with his father, Luther Powell, in 1943.

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“We would like to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American. ”

It was not immediately clear what complications he was suffering from, or how long Powell had been in the hospital before his death.

Powell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma – a type of blood cancer that can limit the body’s ability to fight infection, NBC News reported. It was unclear how long he had struggled with the disease.

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