We have one more thing. We talked to reporter Will Hoover, who wrote a well-researched story for the Honolulu Advertiser on Nov. 9, 2008, about Obama's childhood years in the the Aloha State. It ran under the headline "Obama Slept Here."
Will Hoover's little story was entitled "HAWAII BOYHOOD HOMES DRAWING GAWKERS
In researching the story, he went to the microfilm archives and found the birth announcement for Obama. Actually, he found two of them, one in his Honululu Advertiser on Aug. 13 , 1961, and in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day . They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."
...a tiny, one-line birth notice in the Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961, edition of The Honolulu Advertiser:
"Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."
The exact same notice appeared the following day in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The numerous birth announcements above and below the Obama listing also were identical in both papers, which were unaffiliated, competing publications.
Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing editor Dave Shapiro was not at either paper in 1961, but he remembers how the birth notices process worked years later when both papers were jointly operated by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency — which no longer exists.
THERE'S NO MENTION OF LIBRARY OR MICROFILM IN THAT ARTICLE. BUT HOOVER INCLUDES A COPY OF THE PHOTOCOPIED 'BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT' SENT TO TEXASDARLIN WEBSITE BY LORI STARFELT. (WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE WEBSITE)
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