Obviously, no. There is not room for three people in that bench space.
The group photo in NY you posted appears to be legit on its surface. But I do note the all to often familiar ‘floating hand,’ this time it’s on SAD’s shoulder. No one really knows if he was at Columbia for a day, a week, or a semester. The photo could have been taken at Occidental rather than Columbia.
The park bench photo served the purpose of cementing his connection to the ‘family’ and he shared no photographs of any of his ‘family’ from his graduations.
We do know that early research into the archived hard copy Columbia student magazines from their library turned up nothing. Articles and photos related to AA protests or South African Apartheid had been ‘razor-bladed’ out of all the periodicals during the years that he was said to have attended. They turned up zero on the Zero.
Incoming.
Agreed, it's doubtful.
The group photo in NY you posted appears to be legit on its surface. But I do note the all to often familiar ‘floating hand,’ this time it’s on SAD’s shoulder. No one really knows if he was at Columbia for a day, a week, or a semester. The photo could have been taken at Occidental rather than Columbia.
The photo of the bench against that masonry wall is in Central Park. Whether any one of the three ever sat on it to have their photo taken is an open question...but where-ever they were sitting when that photo was taken, it would seem Stanley Armour had his hand on Madelyn's shoulder. To me, it seems the whole composition came into doubt when the hand was photoshopped onto zero's shoulder.
The park bench photo served the purpose of cementing his connection to the ‘family’ and he shared no photographs of any of his ‘family’ from his graduations.
There are reasonably genuine looking images of the Dunhams, Madelyn and Stanley Armour, and Stanley Ann with zero at the Punahou graduation, but nothing thereafter, other than the possibly faked Central Park image. However, the snapshot of Stanley Ann, zero and Boener appears to be genuine. There's also one of Stanley Ann and zero at Harvard. It's almost as if the relationship with Stanley Ann continued, where-as the relationship with the elder Dunhams may have broken down when or after he left Hawaii.
We do know that early research into the archived hard copy Columbia student magazines from their library turned up nothing. Articles and photos related to AA protests or South African Apartheid had been ‘razor-bladed’ out of all the periodicals during the years that he was said to have attended. They turned up zero on the Zero.
He was photographed in groups with students at protests at Occidental - IIRC those protests were connected with Apartheid in SA. I'll see if I can find them...
The rally at Coons Hall, February 18, 1981. Obama is seated next to the loudspeaker at right. South African speaker Tim Ngubeni is at the podium.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/obama-at-occidental
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