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“I do not believe the Salvation Army home for unwed mothers in Honolulu [the existence of which I was unaware] was still operating in 1961.”

The Honolulu Advertiser has ads for “ANY girl In need of a friend, write or call Supt. Salvation Army Booth Memorial Home 1002 20th Ave. Ph. 73-275” in the February 2, 1962 and the April 20, 1962 editions.

“The only two HI institutions ever mentioned are the two hospitals.”

Why does no one mention the Kaiser Foundation Hospital where Bruce Henderson was born in August, 1961 or the Kuakini Hospital where James Gravely was born in June, 1961?

Obama himself has only mentioned two hospitals as his place of birth, which may be why the others are overlooked. Originally Obama claimed to have been born at Queen’s, and only later switched to Kapiolani.

‘A United Press International report from Nov. 4 states:

“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961, to a young white woman from Kansas and a father of Luo ethnicity from Nyanza Province in Kenya, as an ‘all-America’ story transcending orthodox racial stereotypes and experience.”’

‘A November 2004 report from the Rainbow Edition News Letter, published by the Education Laboratory School in Hawaii, noted in its lead sentence:

“Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.”’

‘Adding a twist to the dispute is a separate claim on the MyBarackObama.com campaign website that lists a genealogy for Obama citing his birthplace as Queen’s Medical Center.

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‘The site documents Obama’s lineage back to his great-great-great grandparents, who lived in the mid-1800s.

It states: “Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann DUNHAM of Wichita, Kansas.”’

‘William Addams Reitwiesner, genealogist at the Library of Congress, first listed the birth location at Queen’s.’

‘Kenya’s East African Standard, in an Aug. 24, 2006, article titled “From Young ‘Barry’ to Top American Senator,” said of Obama: “The Harvard Law School and Columbia University graduate was born at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Honolulu in Hawaii, where his parents were studying at the East-West Centre of the University of Hawaii in Manoa.”’