[David]

Susan Blake mentioned something about the baby being pink. Black or bi-racial children are lighter at birth than later. It’s entirely possible — even probable — that the Dunhams sent Ann back to the Pacific NW to have that child out of wedlock and spare themselves the disgrace that would have attended such a birth in 1961. Barry may well have been born in a maternity home in British Columbia, and Susan Blake may have seen Ann and the baby soon after their discharge. That would explain why there are no photos or eyewitness accounts of a pregnant Ann Dunham. Then, upon receiving news of the birth and that Ann was determined to keep the baby, Madelyn filed an affidavit of home birth with Vital Records, which, in turn, listed the birth in the newspaper column with others recorded that week. The marriage itself? Maybe, maybe not, maybe common-law, maybe a myth to avoid scandal. It fits.

It's all speculative.

It isn't as good speculation as my hypothesis because my hypothesis is supported by a newspaper interview report and tape recording with supporting affidavit of an interview with his grandfather's wife and two of his half syblings that they were present in the hospital room in Kenya when he was born; because of the interview report of the two missionaries who saw her rejected for boarding by BOAC in pregnant condition; by several people who say in public they have seem birth document record reports of his birth in Kenya; by officials in Kenya proposing to build a monument to his birth at Coast General Hospital (at Mombasa); by a bunch of other stuff that doesn't come readily to mind.

And alternative to your hypothesis for which I know of no support except for a comment (again somewhere in the Chicago Tribune or one of the video interviews) that she came to the Seattle/Mercer Island visit from Vancouver, BC.

Which is exactly precisely where she would have come from had she originated in Mombasa or Nairobi.

[Jedidah]

David —

Other than that of a loyal American, I have no dog in this hunt. I just want the truth to come out, and I want to know what 0 is hiding. I was merely offering a plausible scenario based on known dates and facts.

I’d like to know more about the interviews and newspaper articles you reference. I’ve read a lot, but don’t seem to have seen those details. Care to share, with specifics?

[afraidfortherepublic]

because of the interview report of the two missionaries who saw her rejected for boarding by BOAC in pregnant condition;

This is the first I've heard of this report! Do you have a source for that tidbit?

[Plummz]

Where might one find this "interview report"?

Thanks in advance for the cite.

because of the interview report of the two missionaries who saw her rejected for boarding by BOAC in pregnant condition;