Although still married to Kezia in 1960, Senior marries fellow student Anna Dunham. Senior is now legally a bigamist. Over his lifetime and through several wives, Senior eventually returns to Kezia.
Dunham is eighteen years old and an anthropology student. They are both students at the East-West Center and they met in a Russian-language course at a time when the Russian language was inextricably mixed up with communism.
His own father and mother’s wedding in Hawaii may not have been properly documented. “How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore,” Obama writes in his memoir.
It’s understandable that Obama overlooks the particulars, since Ann Dunham was probably a minor when Barack Obama Sr., an already married 24-year-old, impregnated her?
Obama weighed eight pounds, two ounces when he was born on August 4, 1961 (p. 22 of Dreams from My Father), so we can assume he went close to full term, or nine months.
His parents’ marriage took place six months before his birth on February 2nd, 1961. Nine months before Obama’s birth would be early November 1960, about three to four weeks before Ann Dunham’s 18th birthday on November 29, 1960.
It appears that Barack Sr., a married man of about 24, almost certainly impregnated a 17-year-old Dunham.
Hypothetically, the picture in the "wedding dress" is around Christmas, 1960. Her family is in Hawaii. They are in the departure lounge of the Honolulu Airport. But they don't get married for over a month.
Where did they get married?
Reason Obama doesn't want to know is because it demonstrates the inaccuracy of his story that mother had never been out of the country prior to Indonesia; also puts her in Kenya a long time before the birth and necessitates getting her back before August 4.
Marriage documents research in Kenya for 1961 would also be helpful.