A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.

Designated as "True" on Snopes ^ | updated Sept 16, 2016 | by David Mikkelson

[Jim Robinson]

Claim: A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2012]

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.

ORIGIN:In May 2012 the web site Breitbart published a copy of a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by the literary agency Acton & Dystel showcasing their roster of writers, among whom was a young man named Barack Obama. This booklet was of particular interest because it included a brief biographical sketch which described the future President as having been born in Kenya:

[SaveFerris]

Well, I heard about this Jim Thompson guy that somebody once claimed.....

[SaveFerris]

Now THAT is a good idea.

[DiogenesLamp]

What matters is where she was on August 4, 1961, and that would be the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

If that is the case, how did she get to Seattle Washington on August 19, 1961? We know she was there because she enrolled in the University on that Date. We also know she was in Seattle because her friend Susan Blake said that Stanely Ann showed up at her house in the later part of August with a newborn infant.

The airlines of 1961 would not allow infants to fly on aircraft because it would burst their eardrums. (Other freepers have verified this by finding the actual airline policy documents from the period.)

So how did Stanely get to Seattle?

[SaveFerris]

Yep, I think so too.

[Fantasywriter]

Btw, you should read your own link. It calls the out building Obama’s “boyhood home.” That’s because the site dates from the time that people still believed Dreams from My Father contained a shred of truth. Therefore it was *claimed* that Stanley Ann and Obama Sr lived in the out building for two years.

Then it came out that Dreams is cover-to-cover lies—but your website was never updated.

[wintertime]

If Trump or his family was threatened, hopefully legal action will be taken if Trump wins.

[Resettozero]

What matters is where she (Obama's mother) was on August 4, 1961, and that would be the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

Since Stanley Ann and both her parents were as white as the Kenyan snow, she was giving birth to a mixed-race child on that date. A child, who later, after becoming a United States Senator and then President, would occasionally choose to wear makeup on his face, neck, arms and hands to appear darker skinned than he really is so as to pander to American black voters as being "one of them". Or is that not important to you?

[Elderberry]

Do you remember how many of our fine representatives promised that they would stand up and raise objections in the Joint Session when the electoral votes were certified?

And how there was deadly silence when the question was asked, were there any objections?

[DiogenesLamp]

Excellent question! Could it be Stanley Ann was already in the neighborhood?

That makes more sense than the alternative. There is, in fact, a letter written by Barack Obama Sr. in which he says that their original intention was to give Baby Obama up for adoption.

Perhaps she was in the Northeastern Washington area for this purpose?

Or if not, why go to the trouble and expense of leaving HI at all? Had she been in HI, she’d have simply continued her education there.

Probably her daddy found out that she was pregnant from a black man and had a towering rage fit over it. Both her mom and Dad were from Kansas and from a period in which interracial intercourse was known as "miscegenation" and was a felony in many states.

Probably Mommy and Daddy were *VERY* upset with her, and sent her away to have the baby and give it up for adoption. I have already pointed out how her aunt Eleanor lived in Canada in 1959, and later in Blaine Washington. Perhaps she got sent to live with her aunt till the baby was born? This is how they did things with embarrassing pregnancies back in those days.

And while living in Canada, or up by the Canadian border, who's to say she didn't take advantage of Canada's newly began FREE HEALTH CARE?

Yes, by 1961, anyone could get free health care at Canadian hospitals and I expect this would look pretty good to a poor pregnant girl of the time.

[combat_boots]

ping

[Fantasywriter]

Read Maraniss’ book. He debunks the myth that Stanley Ann and baby Obama lived at the birth-announcement address following the pregnancy.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I saw a video a few years ago of a debate he was in when running for Congress, I believe. He was introduced as "Kenyan born, Barack Obama".
He smiled and waved and made no correction. Of course, that vid has disappeared.

[Fantasywriter]

Why don’t you cite something from Dreams that’s true.

Barring that, do your own research. There are sites that document the lies in Dreams. Find one and educate yourself.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

His grandmother said she was there and attended his birth in Kenya. I believe her since there is no birth certificate to prove anything else. He was the one who said he was born in Kenya. Now he wants to change what he himself had said.

He should never have been allowed to be president of the United States.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Oh, CR@P. Are we going to hash this all over again?

Obama himself (and Hillary) created it. Neither can prove his US birth. Nobody knows if he was born here or not, of if he really is Barak Obama. The "Hawaii BC" is a forgery.

It's a very important precedent that should never be allowed to reoccur.