Ruby, I’m Just having a little fun with some the old photographs in the thread and comparing them to the one that you recently posted!
So this is supposed to be 1971 and Mommy, Daddy, & Barry at the Honolulu Airport:
BHO,Sr. -—— age 35
Stanley Anne—age 28
boy Barack——age 10
OR, is it really the year 1961 and The Honeymoon Departure at Honolulu Airport?
BHO,Sr.-————age 25
Stanley Anne-——age 18
Photoshop of Barack inserted in 1961 photo ( Note that the boy’s head, wrist, mouth, ears, & combined arm-length are each bigger than Dad’s!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040486/posts?page=1037#1037
As compared to your submitted photo of about the same time frame taken in Chicago at Uncle Jon Payne’s house:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2040486%2C6232
It’s a very blurry photo, but it does reveal a very different look and size for Anne from the the early 1970’s airport photograph. Her size appears maternity or post-maternity which would coincide with the half sister’s birth in 1970. Which leads me to believe that the earlier photo of the couple is 1961 and the father-son photo was a campaign construction.
What are your impressions?
If you do a Google search for Ann Dunham Soetoro images you will find that she was heavy for much of her later life. She wore long dresses after she had Maya but when she appeared in a skirt and top the weight showed like it did on the cross country tour the family went on when Jr was 11 or 12. (Dates aren’t important to Jr as he showed when he announced in N.C. that his grandmother had died, he said she was born in 1922 which meant she lived through two world wars and the great depression, but the first world war ended in 1918 four years before his grandmother was even born.)
What are your impressions?
My impression is that the boy obama is about the same height in both images, the mother Stanley Ann is pregnant at the time the photograph was taken with obama snr at the airport - and the photograph with the uncle is from the period later in her pregnancy with Maya.
FWIW.
From the article:
"Me in my long hair years," he said as he pointed to the photograph. "And this is Ann, this is Barack's mother, and this is Barack. Barack's about 12."
Aren't there two birthdates for Maya? I believe Aug 1970 as well as the Sept 1971 date.
BO says his father came to visit Christmas time when he was 10. So that would be Dec 1971-Jan 1972. Both dates after Maya's two birthdates.
But I also noticed that Ann did not gain weight for at least a couple years after Maya's birth. She is still more slim in this pic - Maya maybe ~18 months (?). That would make BO ~ 10.5-11.5 (?)
