The essential element of these posts is to address her schedule and location between early July 1961 and October 1, 1961.
In my mind, there is no doubt that she, or someone using her name, was physically present at the U registering for Night School class on September 19; and in class the following week.
There is no certain evidence that she was in Seattle at any point before that. There are individuals who knew her who placed her in Seattle in August, and there is someone who said she was at a Labor Day event in September. There is enough of that to believe that she was in Seattle in that time frame.
If she birthed a child in Mombasa on August 4, what could she have done?
In the first Long Thread, in the spring and summer of 2008, there are extensive copies of the BOAC schedules for that period demonstrating what she could have done.
I knew someone from Seattle who took depositions in Nairobi in periods somewhat later--the way to get back was BOAC from Nairobi to Glaskow Scotland; Glaskow to Vancouver B.C. There was some problem with making connections from Vancouver to Seattle and the way that was resolved was usually that someone drove from Seattle to Vancouver and picked the passenger up.
I was initially concerned that evidence would appear that Stanley Ann made the birth filing on August 8, 1961 in Honolulu with the baby giving a doctor the footprint--and attempting to claim Honolulu home birth. Observe that a birth in Mombasa on August 4 would have occurred during most of the day on August 3 on the West Coast of the US. That would still be a tight schedule. But it could have been done to establish he was born in Honolulu..
That didn't happen.
So I don't have any trouble believing that she could have had a baby, or someone else could have had a baby, in Mombasa on August 4, with Stanley Ann showing up with the baby in Seattle by mid August.
At this point, I think the record is pretty clear that she wasn't in Honolulu at any point after August 4.
The issue above about application for admission to the U of W is a little trickier. Even if she could have applied to Night School later than August 1 (and I am not so sure she could have), I think it is likely she applied for regular admission to the U which means she needed to have had that in process by mail long before August 1.
“There is no certain evidence that she was in Seattle at any point before that. There are individuals who knew her who placed her in Seattle in August, and there is someone who said she was at a Labor Day event in September. There is enough of that to believe that she was in Seattle in that time frame.”
Didn’t someone investigate when “Anna Obama” would have to be at the Capitol Hill address to have been included in the city directory? As I recall, Fred’s got a good handle on the directory notice that’s been published with various articles. Is there a way to figure out the latest date she could have arrived at the Capitol Hill address and been canvassed for the directory listing? Any importance attached to that issue rests of course on the notice that was used being a true one and not another digital creation with no basis in reality. (Only Tony knows for sure.)
Or did she start out living somewhere else?
David, that brings up something else. The “Laurelhurst” name was suggested in various web references. One place was the blog conversation between museum lady Charlette and a poster named Leif. In one of the other references, I recall it being described as a residence hall for pregnant students and somewhere else as an unwed mother’s home. There was yet another explanation for Laurelhurst but it has gone from my memory. Do you know what it really was and if so, does it have any place in this story?