Yes, this photo makes all of the timing and travel VERY interesting...... if Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961 then he was conceived around early Nov. 1960 (very interesting timing considering his mother “Stanley” Dunham had only entered the U. of Hawaii as a freshman in Sept. 1960, IIRC).
Now it appears they are flying somewhere for a ‘honeymoon’ or something associated with being a couple, possibly a quickie wedding (or not), and it is supposedly around Feb. 1961 if she was indeed about 3 months pregnant.
Let’s remember, folks, that in 1960-61 it was still a huge issue for an 18 y.o. unmarried female, college freshman, to be pregnant out of wedlock. HUGE problem for them and her family. Inter-racial couples were still extremely rare, even in their permissive environment of Honolulu, but what has me wondering about all the possible deception is that (1) HE was already married back home, and (2) SHE was in an extremely awkward situation for an 18 y.o. unmarried, pregnant female. So did they have a quickie wedding in Hawaii with only the required couple of witnesses, or (MAYBE) was it decided that the couple would go off to British East Africa to handle things there....?
“No one was invited” to the “wedding” so it may have been just a quick stop at the local Justice of Peace office — OR did they head off to British East Africa (not an independent Kenya until 1963)??? It would have been much easier, probably, for Mr. Obama to arrange to marry an 18 year old MINOR (in those days) college freshman on his home turf than in Hawaii.....
I recall seeing a quote from Obama’s book on one of the blogs, where he said that the circumstances of his parents’ (supposed) marriage were mysterious but that he never bothered to look into it. That statement rang a few bells, since it made me wonder whether he had basically been told the situation was irregular, don’t ask any questions.
None of this is his doing, of course, whatever his parents did or didn’t do, but somewhere in that mess there may be an explanation for why all the deception, why all the mystery, why can’t he simply present a legitimate BC and put all this to rest???
Has anyone ever seen any evidence that “Stanley” Dunham, Obama’s mother, was at the university in the Spring or Summer of 1961 or (after his birth) in the fall of 1961? Were they really in Hawaii, or somewhere else such as British East Africa??
However, there are Christmas decorations in the background in that picture, which would not place it in February, as the airport would have taken them down by then. I suspect that picture was taken between Thanksgiving and Christmas, which was typically when Christmas decorations were put out.
-PJ