Easygoing: Mr Obama as a college student in a previously
unseen photograph
Posted on 12/19/2008 7:09:13 AM PST by yankeedame
...Barack Obama was yesterday named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year, as a set of never-seen-before photographs emerged of the American president-elect...
The black and white pictures show the dandily dressed Obama, aged around 19, smoking a cigarette whilst sitting on a wooden bench and leaning against a wall.
The future Democratic leader of the free world was spotted by aspiring photographer Lisa Jack in the canteen at Los Angeles’ Occidental College and happily agreed to model for her....
...Ms Jack...lost touch with Mr Obama shortly after the photo session....now a psychologist, eventually agreed to give the prints to Time, to coincide with its Person of the Year award.
Easygoing: Mr Obama as a college student in a previously
unseen photograph
‘These are historic photos and they should be shared,’ she said....
Charismatic: Mr Obama posed for aspiring photographer Lisa Jack
in the canteen at Los Angeles’ Occidental College. She had kept the
negatives in her basement
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If there was a way to place certain limited users’ on ignore you would certainly be on the list...
He looked dorky then, too.
later
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