In a recent article in the link (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.
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So both Cashill and Codevilla are referring to an image that was published by CBS in 2007. That doesn't get you any closer to where it supposedly appeared in a Honolulu Newspaper in 1959...IF IT DID.
“So both Cashill and Codevilla are referring to an image that was published by CBS in 2007.”
And the CBS caption reads
“Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., center, is shown wearing floral leis on his graduation day at the University of Hawaii in the early 1960s.”
So that would be June, 1962.