According to divorce papers filed in 1964, Barack Sr. and Ann married in Wailuku, Maui on February 2, 1961. But one has to wonder whether it was a marriage in anything but name, or whether there was a marriage at all. Obama himself writes in Dreams, “In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I’ve never quite had the courage to explore.”
No one attended the wedding — not Abercrombie, not Ann’s parents. In fact, no one in Barack Sr.’s clique seemed to know there was a relationship, let alone a wedding. Neil’s brother Hal never saw Ann and Barack Sr. together. Another clique member, Pake Zane, who had distinct memories of Barack Sr., could not recall Ann at all. When Neil Abercrombie and Zane visited their friend in Nairobi in 1968, Barack Sr. shocked them by never once inquiring about his putative wife and 6-year-old son.
There is NO record of a wedding ... only her say-so.
My guess is that he probably got her drunk, took her to a faux justice of the peace to reassure her it was okay for them to bed by pretending to marry her and oops! Barry happened. If it was a faux marriage, she may not have know it and really believed they were married. Or maybe the JP didn’t file the record. Kind of reminds me of a movie storyline. By the way has anyone checked into JP’s and ministers in the area who could have married them. The record maybe tucked away somewhere forgotten to be sent to the state.
No wonder Barry wouldn’t want his daughters punished with a baby, looked what happened to his mama.