8 The Hampton Roads Messenger


Volume 10 Number 5


January 2016 A Year in Review: 2015 Presidential Photos Photos by Pete Souza


First Family joined others in beginning the walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.


The Queen of Soul — Aretha Frank- lin — was waiting for her cue during ‘The Gospel Tradition: In Perfor- mance at the White House’


The President talks with students and law enforcement officials about community relations and programs that build trust between youth and the police in Camden, N.J. Earlier that day, we had toured police headquarters with the Chief of Police J. Scott Thomson.


Nice pajamas. The President greets residents in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. The area experi- enced significant flooding during Hurricane Katrina ten years ago, and much of it has been rebuilt.


The President acquiesced to a selfie with 11-year-old Jacob Haynes and four-year-old James Haynes after taking a family photograph with departing White House staffer Heather Foster.


Four-year-old Malik Hall greets the President, al- most in disbelief, before a departure photo with Ma- lik’s uncle Maurice Owens, center, and his family.


The Obama family and Biden family greet Pope Francis as he arrives in the United States for the first time at Joint Base Andrews.


The President and his daughters Sasha and Malia participate in the annual National Thanksgiving Turkey pardon ceremony in the Rose Garden with National Turkey Federation Chairman Jihad Douglas.


The President hugs Vice President Joe Biden after delivering a eulogy during the funeral mass for Beau Biden at St. Anthony of Padua Catho- lic Church in Wilmington, Del.


Following the mass shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., that claimed nine lives, the President pauses while giving the eulogy at the funeral of one of the victims, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, at the College of Charleston. Rev. Pinckney’s family is seated in the front row at lower left.


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