Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and now without his trademark smoke
Posted on 06/14/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The face is instantly familiar, the two-fingered salute unmistakable.
But are these actually the same photograph of Sir Winston Churchill?
In the original photograph the war leader has his cigar gripped firmly in the corner of his mouth.
But in the other image - currently greeting visitors to a London museum - his favourite smoke has been digitally extinguished.
Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and now without his trademark smoke
It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of political correctness.
Last night the question of who removed the cigar and when was something of a mystery.
The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience, in South-East London, confessed to being astonished to discover that the image may have been doctored.
Which is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust, because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the museum's main door.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
>> Liberals do this kind of thing all the time.
b-tards.
It was late 1963, Andrews AFB Maryland. Yeah, I’m old but it’s better than the alternative.
“. . . and FDR could walk, too. And, oh, yeah, he was faithful to Eleanor.”
And Eleanor was a heterosexual babe.
Eleanor could give Helen a run for the money in the ugly department.
The new Bogart:
When the US Surgeon General announced that cigarette smoking may be harmful to health in the early 1960s people were shocked, it had NEVER occurred to most people that it might be dangerous (in the 1950s OVER 50% of American adults smoked and I imagine the number was about the same for the British and certainly for the French).
Also, the fact remains that cigars are nowhere near as harmful as cigarettes because, properly smoked, they are puffed and not inhaled (granted most “regular” cigar smokers don’t smoke anywhere near as many as Churchill). Churchill had one of the most stressful jobs in the history of the world, smoked thousands of cigars a year, drank gin by the gallon, only slept a few hours a night and still lived to be 90.
He could maybe be the new Rock Hudson, but not Bogart.
Are you implying that (1) Obama is really a reincarnated Nixon or (2) they airbrushed out 2 cigarettes? :)
Should show him snortin coke and a drink in his hand.
There sure is a big difference between may have and was ....
LMAO!
Churchill was one of the most remarkable men in history.
In his early life he had a somewhat serious speech impediment, which he overcame to become one of the greatest orators of all time.
He was a fairly accomplished artist.
He did horribly in school, except for English and history. He was ridiculed by his teachers for being unable to learn foreign languages (which was considered totally unacceptable for upper class men of his era), but later proved himself to be a master of the English language and wrote what many consider to be the definitive history of the English people and a masterpiece memoir of World War II (for these two epic undertakings he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature).
Rooters would be proud!
LOL! His toxic waste dump of a body was disease-repellent! Nothing bad could survive in there long enough to do him harm!
I, too, teach history to teenagers. My American history textbook has the famous “joining of the rails”; when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads met in Utah. You’ve all seen the picture—two locomotives touching tenders. Except in my textbook, the men on the locomotives are reaching out to each other with empty hands. In the real photo of course they are holding champagne bottles and glasses. Lord knows we can’t show alcohol use in a textbook. I show them the real thing and ask them if they can see the difference. They always laugh at the stupidity of airbrushing history.
Absolutely insane.
Good grief - we should be teaching kids the idea of drinking in moderation as adults, if they are going to drink. That picture is a perfect example of the idea of drinking at a special occasion.
The negative must have been reversed on the picture I saw as the engines were touching pilots, aka cow-catchers.
Great thing about FR - always an expert on the correct terminology around :)
doh! My grandfather and two uncles (all Union Pacific) are rolling in their graves!
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