Charles Winters

- Was a businessman in the airplane industryABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)
- Protestant from BostonABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)
- Shipped fruits and other productsABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)
- Assisted the Jewish resistance movement in former Palestine with planes and weaponsmsnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008)
- Donated three military cargo planes to the Israeli Defense Forces after Israel declared its independence in 1948ABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)
- Personally flew one of the planes to IsraelABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)
- One of George W. Bush's pardons in December 2008The New York Times: A Posthumous Pardon for a Hero in Israel (December 23, 2008)
- Was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act and served 18 months in prisonmsnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008)
- The Neutrality Act prohibits the assistance to parties in international conflicts where the United States has not taken a sidemsnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008)
- Steven Spielberg had previously written to Bush to appeal for a pardon of WintersThe New York Times: A Posthumous Pardon for a Hero in Israel (December 23, 2008)
- John F. Kennedy pardoned Herman Greenspun, who was also convicted of violating the act, in 1961msnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008)
- Another man convicted, Al Schwimmer, was pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2000msnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008)
- Died on October 30, 1984, at the age of 71ABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)

Charles Winters was a businessman who was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act after assisting the Jewish resistance movement in the former British mandate of Palestine, today's Israel, in the 1940s, and donating three military planes to Israel after it declared its independence in 1948.msnbc: Bush pardons 19, commutes 1 prison term (December 23, 2008) ABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)Winters died in 1984.ABC News: Bush Pardons Man Who Helped Israel... (December 23, 2008)