A little about the group image:
http://gulagbound.com/18116/a-closer-look-at-obama-sr/
In a recent article in the Claremont Review of Books, national-security guru Angelo Codevilla makes a provocative claim.
“Another photo, published in a Honolulu newspaper in 1959,” he writes, “shows [Ann’s father] Stanley Dunham escorted by uniformed U.S. Navy officers, greeting Barack Obama Sr., as he arrived in Hawaii from Kenya.”
In the photo, Dunham stands next to Obama smiling. Codevilla contends that the CIA might well have assigned Dunham to keep an eye on Obama, an unwitting pawn in the agency’s mission to woo the emerging African elite.
If Codevilla is right, then Jacobs’ book is close to all wrong. In her account, Obama arrives, alone and friendless in Hawaii, not surrounded by 20 well-wishers, chief among them a future father-in-law who was not yet supposed to be there.
If the date of the photo can be verified as 1959, Codevilla is likely right, and the mystery deepens.
(The source of the image has never been verified as far as we know.)
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Do they give out leis when a person leaves, as they give out leis when a person arrives? Seems like a silly question but my thought process is- is this an arrival, or a departure? Just knocking the rust off my grey matter, after a very long idle period, and playing basic detective 101.