The real son of the Kenyan is Roman 0bama, who was born with the name Barack Hussein Obama and a woman who was likely from the Philippines, and Zero’s caretakers stole his identity and gave it to Zero.
Zero was brought to HI at some point, and first was given to SAD to take care of when he was around 2 1/2 to 3. - Age is shown in the photo of SAD holding Zero on the chain link fence I think it is the Honolulu zoo. - No younger photo of Zero with SAD or the Dunhams exists. - In fact very few photos of Zero and any Dunhams exist.
BTW all Mercer High School yearbooks were removed from the town (or high school, or both) library/s and never found. Odd, that.
At this point, I think we know a fair amount more than the legend that is in general circulation.
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The issue with Stanley's Mercer Island period is suspect because much of the record after 1958 consists of photographs that are obviously photoshopped. My own best guess is that she was at Mercer Island through her Junior year in high school ending in the spring of 1959; and thereafter elsewhere.
I reason that if they had a real record that supports the history legend which has her at Mercer Island until she graduated in the spring of 1960, they would have shown it to you and they would not have created all the fake pictures.
I believe Trowbridge's Jo Anne Newman is more of a label than a real intended name. - She picked that name because the real Jo Anne Newman was an actress ..... as is Barry's real mother. - And Trowbridge has a pretty good idea of who she is but she is a real living person and Trowbridge doesn't have the critical piece of evidence to pin her and therefore doesn't want to take legal risk with her real name.
Trowbridge's real contribution is the identification of the living accommodation in New York located a block from his father's residence which was occupied by Barry and his Au Pair from the time of his birth until late 1962 or early 1963.
If one is going to speculate on the course of events, one could speculate that Stanley's role was as an Au Pair, a glorified babysitter, from the time of his birth until late 1962 or early 1963 at which point he was in Hawaii for a short time and then in Indonesia (as Barry himself tells us in the Time Magazine article interview done when he was in Boston purportedly going to Law School).
His initial Indonesia relationship was with the Soebarkah's. Barry's managers have devoted significant effort to erasing the Soebarkah period from the record and it is not clear to me yet why they have done so.
It may be as simple as the fact that the story that took him to Indonesia as the adopted child of an unrelated family during the period from 1963 through sometime in the mid 60's when Stanley was reinserted as his primary custodian is not a credible fit with the legend. - There may however be some other explanation.
From early 1963 through the mid 1960's, he had no relationship with Stanley or her family. In that period, Stanley was a student at the University of Hawaii.
At this point, I am personally inclined to speculate that Stanley's association with his father and mother probably pre dated the birth and that further, she was involved in the arrangements which were made at the actual location where the birth occurred. If I could prove that I would go public with it but at present, I am not able to do so.
I will say that in terms of his appearance, he looks most like his mother.
Thanks, David.