Good article to bookmark for future reference. Thanks. So that Jacobs book said that Omar came in 1963. That’s if you believe these authorized biographies, which I’m not sure that I do.
You got it...there’s also a video in which Cora Weiss attempts to tell her audience that Tom Mboya also received applicants from Kenya to attend US high schools, I see that as a blatant attempt by her to cover for how did Omar end up in a fancy private school in Boston. Cora was recently forced to recant her lies that Tom Mboya had anyhting to do with the kenyan attending university in Hawaii. Tom Mboya didn’t. The kenyan arrived a good month before the first airlift landed at Idlewild airport in September 1959. That flight was arranged by Cora, Jackie Robinson and Harry Belafonte.
Tom Mboya didn’t control the funds for the AASF - Cora Weiss did!
IN HER OWN WORDS:
“The first plane was paid for because Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson and Sidney Poitier, together signed a fundraising letter,” Mrs. Weiss said. “In that first group of 1959, 81 students came.”
“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.
“He picked up the scholarship from the University of Hawaii. And while he was there, he needed money for books and tuition and clothes, some of which we sent him.
“So he wasn’t on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.”
source: VineYard Gazette Online
The kenyan was interviewed in Hawaii in August on his arrival, the first plane load of 81 students arrived in the US on September 19.
Here she is on Video:
What no one seems to have researched is the relationship between the kenyan and Mboya, whose families shared an enmity going back to previous generations, and Tom Mboya NEVER gave a government position to the kenyan, who worked for an oil company until after Mboya was assassinated, according to articles on Kenya websites.
The layers of lies are so deep and numerous, it’s almost unbelievable.
As there’s an article that states the kenyan and his half-brother shared an apartment while the kenyan attended Harvard, I’m leaving the arrival of Omar open. It makes sense he would start his education at the high school in the same year the kenyan commenced Harvard.