BTW, I wonder who developed the pics. You couldn't take photos like that to the local Fotomat back then.
Frank Marshall Davis was a photographer himself, as well as an author. He worked for a newspaper. He could have developed them himself. When combined with the narrative of his later book, it tells quite a story. He, of course, would deny it, but he was being carefully watched by the FBI in those days and may have even been on probation. In any case, if he admitted the liaison, he would have been jailed. She was underage, etc.
He was her daddy’s friend — the only person they knew well in Hawaii at the time. I alwsys figured that they paid BO Sr. to claim the baby because it would seem less sordid to have a sham marriage between an exoctic foreign student (with a British accent) than to be knocked up by a married black man twice her age.
Frank Marshall Davis didn’t have to find a local camera store to have film processed, or mail it away. There were no “Fotomat” places such as we have today, but no matter - Davis was a professional photographer, and doubtless the old perv had his own darkroom
The argument for these photos having been made by the professional, Davis, is strengthened in particular by the fact of the absence of shadows on the subject - no flashbulbs were used, but rather professional lighting with reflectors.
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