Sorry for the late response power went out here yesterday and I am just now catching up. Earlier I had posted a link to an aticle in ‘The Honolulu Adverstiser’ which has a 1959 picture of Obama Sr along with quotes from an article about him which appeared after his 1962 graduation but before he left for the mainland. The 1962 article is mentioned in one of Obama’s books as something he had found when he also supposedly found his birth certificate. However in his book he said the article was from the ‘Honolulu Star Bulletin’ NOT the ‘Honolulu Advertiser’. You can see the picture of Obama Sr taken in 1959 and also exerpts of his 1962 interview here:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Feb/10/ln/FP702100346.html
Also interesting to note that there are only two locations given of where Sr lived while going to school in Hawaii and neither is the address mentioned in the birth announcement. The address listed in the birth announcement is over 7 miles away from the University of Hawaii while the Atherton YMCA and St Louis Heights are both within one mile of the University.
The address listed in the birth announcement is over 7 miles away from the University of Hawaii while the Atherton YMCA and St Louis Heights are both within one mile of the University.
that little snippet never convinced me it really was an announcement of birth, maybe if we saw the entire page, with date and name of publication...?
How do you know where Sr. lived while going to school in Hawaii? We have seen a post of comments by a woman who had first hand knowledge that had him living with another woman at some point after Jr.'s birth--do you have that address?
What other information is available about the birth announcement address? Who did live there in August 1961? Were there neighbors?
He was likely interviewed in both papers. What's more important, IMO, is that the Honolulu Advertiser actually checked their archives, and affirmed that Obama Sr. graduated in 1962. The internet is littered with articles that state he graduated in 1963 -- based, I guess, on 1959+4=1963. It gives you a good idea of the what passes for journalism nowadays.
The address listed in the birth announcement is over 7 miles away from the University of Hawaii while the Atherton YMCA and St Louis Heights are both within one mile of the University.
I'm not sure the address in the Honolulu Advertiser birth notice is important, since even Obama doesn't try to argue that Obama, Sr. and Ann ever established a home together. It's probably the address of the Dunham grandparents at the time.
Good stuff.