It just gets stranger and stranger.
I’m reading BHO’s immigration file. On August 31, 1961, he’s in Honolulu filing papers with the INS trying to extend his stay for another year and also trying to get permission to work part-time up to 25 hours a week.
The form asks him to list any wife and children. He lists Stanley Ann as wife, but leaves blank the space for any child. Whaaa?? Little Barky had been born weeks ago.
The form asks why he needs the money from working part-time. You’d think the obvious reason would be that he now has a child to support. But no, he doesn’t mention that at all. He says he didn’t get as much scholarship money as he thought.
There is a handwritten note in the file apparently based on an interview with BHO. It says his wife is living at home with her parents and was planning on attending Wash State University. It says little Barky had been born in early August.
But in fact SAD had already left for Seattle and it was UW, not WSU that she was attending.
BHO seemed to only vaguely know what his wife was up to.
It doesn’t add up.
It doesn’t add up because he doesn’t care one wit about the silly little white girl he was forced into a marriage contract with. It was a contract, not a life partnership, so it means nothing to him.
If Stanley Ann gave birth outside of HI, then he probably wasn’t informed at the time he was filling out that paperwork. The Dunhams probably didn’t feel the need to tell him. Now, why the little mama didn’t write to him is anyone’s guess unless she was afraid to hear his reply which would destroy her little fantasy world with them living happily ever after.
Many of the INS letters and notes are dated days and weeks after the fact when the interviewer had time to document the interviews in Sr.’s folder or to make any follow up contacts.