ProQuest is a TEXT, so that takes us back to the transcription issue. LA Times on microfilm would be helpful. I’ll put it on my list of things to do.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1990/06/obama199006
Photo of this article at the link. Check out what it says, which is NOW said to be an error:
“He saw brutal poverty while growing up in SINGAPORE with his mother, an anthropologist, and his half-brothers and -sisters in Kenya still live hand to mouth at times.”
Is there any person in the whole wide world about whom more “mistakes” have been made while reporting? Did Barry have more than one half-sister in Kenya?
After yesterday, we can add Sally Jacobs to the list of mistake-makers. She is the one who wrote that Obama never met Uncle Omar, while Omar says he did. She interviewed Omar, btw, for her book. You’d think she’d have asked him then whether he knew Barry when they lived so close together back in the ‘80s. The story is that Barry Obama was at Harvard from 1988, so it had to be the very late ‘80s that Barry lived with Uncle Omar. There was much going on with that entire Kenyan family in the late ‘80s. You’d think that, today, Jacobs would be quite angry at having been misled. Will she, like others, have to “correct” her writings?
Here’s another circa-1990 story that has other “errors”: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_KWGXrvVz7U/Tu_ivAUDdxI/AAAAAAAAESk/MDxpVe2JXI0/s1600/ObamaHarvardStudentTacklesRacismAtCore3May1990.jpg
He attended Indonesian schools until 5th grade, it says. He moved to “Southeast Asia” at “age two.” Elsewhere, photos and teachers show that he went to kindergarten in Hawaii and also was in third grade in Hawaii, simultaneously being in third grade in Jakarta.
http://www.wnd.com/2010/11/230829/
“Then, on Aug. 1, 1990, reporter Tammerlin Drummond wrote that Obama left for Indonesia at 2 years old, in an article entitled “Harvard Law Review Gets Its First Black President.”
“Two years [after Obama was born], Obama’s parents separated and he moved to a small village outside Jakarta, Indonesia, with his mother, an anthropologist,” Drummond wrote. “There he spent his boyhood playing with the sons and daughters of rice farmers and rickshaw drivers, attending an Indonesian-speaking school, where he had little contact with Americans.”
Drummond further reported that, “AfTER SIX YEARS in Indonesia, Obama was sent back to the United States to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii in preparation for college.”
Six years in Indonesia?”
More “mistakes”.
