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.
age of sexual consent is 16 in Hawaii.