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Re: WHAT IS OBAMA AND FAMILY HIDING?  

1959/1960:  Malcolm Xs candid and often irreverent political views made him the most interviewed African-American leader by the press and the second-most sought-after college speaker.  Malcolm X made many trips to the West Coast to speak at colleges like UC Berkeley and U Washington.

As graduation neared for the class of 1960, Dunham had hoped to join many of her classmates at the University of Washington, and she was also accepted to the University of Chicago, according to Obama's memoir, the best-selling "Dreams from My Father."

Kenya to Hawaii

1959 Malcolm X travels to Middle East and Africa including Kenya.  Malcolm X meets with Jomo Kenyatta (recently released from prison following his conviction on leading the Mau Mau Rebellion), Tom Mboya, and may have met Barack Hussein Obama Sr, who was Mboyas close confident and fellow Luo tribesman both from Lake Victoria.

Due to a program offering Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students that was organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya,  Obama Sr. was awarded a scholarship in economics, and at the age of 23 (1959) he enrolled at the University of Hawaii. Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Senior's early years in the United States.  Elizabeth Mooney Kirk worked in Kenya and in concert with Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya.  Kirk and  Malcolm X, both New Yorkers, would have certainly met in Kenya.  Kirk co-authored many books with Frank Charles Laubach, founder of LLI.

Aside: Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father

Hawaii

1960: Purportedly, Ann Dunham became pregnant approx. Nov 1st, 1960 while still 17 years old.  While only 3 months pregnant, on February 2, 1961, Obama purportedly married a fellow student in , Hawaii. Their son, Barack Obama II, was purportedly born on August 4, 1961. Records from the U of Hawaii and U of Washington make these dates very unlikely.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham:

Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 - Summer 1966
Fall 1972 - Fall 1974

Spring 1978
Fall 1984 - Summer 1992

Degrees awarded:
BA - Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967)
MA - Anthropology, Fall 1983 (December 18, 1983)
PhD - Anthropology, Summer 1992 (August 9, 1992)

Sincerely,
Stuart Lau

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Stuart Lau
University Registrar
Office of Admissions and Records
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph: (808) 956-8010
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Members of the snack bar crowd at University of Hawaii dont remember the Obama-Dunham relationship. Hal Abercrombie said he never saw them together. Pake Zane could not recall Ann from those days but had precise memories of Obama.

August of 1961:  The same month that Obama Jrs birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii, the University of Washington shows his mom Stanley Ann Dunham attending classes in Seattle nearly 2680 miles away from Honolulu. She was enrolled in the UW and lived in an apartment on Capitol Hill.  This explains why Obama Srs friends in Hawaii dont remember her.

Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for:

Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962

The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State.  This concludes the Universitys response to your Public Records request.  Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.

Madolyne Lawson
Office of Public Records
206-543-9180

LLIs Elizabeth Mooney Kirk wrote to Tom Mboya in May 1962 to request additional funds to "sponsor Barack Obama for graduate study, preferably at Harvard." She said she would "like to do more" to assist the young man but had two stepchildren ready for college. Kirks letter worked and Obama Sr. was offered a scholarship (from Tom Mboya in Kenya) to pursue a doctorate at Harvard.   Obama Sr. graduated from the University of Hawaii with honors in June 1962.  A story in the Star-Bulletin on the day he left, June 22 1962, said Obama planned a several-weeks grand tour of mainland universities before he arrived at Harvard to study economics on a graduate faculty fellowship. The story did not mention that he had a wife and an infant son.   Obama arrived in Cambridge on a brisk fall day in 1962, not returning to Hawaii until Dec 1971.

Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

Stanley Ann Dunham returned to Hawaii after Barack Hussein Obama Sr. left the island, and resumed her study of Mathematics in the Spring of 1963 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

1965: On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an US oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transportation, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. The mass airlifts of Kenyan students to the United States had a "huge" impact on the young African nation, which gained its independence from Britain in 1963.  A University of Nairobi study showed that 70 percent of top Kenyan officials after independence, including Obama Sr., were products of the American program. LLI was proud of their part in this social change.

Barack Hussein Obama Srs trip to Honolulu in Dec 1971 was bracketed by two trips that Obama's old snack bar friends from the University of Hawaii made to see him in Kenya. Late in 1968, Neil Abercrombie and Pake Zane traveled through Nairobi on a year-long backpacking trip around the world and stayed with Obama for several days before they made their way on to the port city of Mombasa and to India. No mention was made of Stanley Ann Dunham or Barack Hussein Obama Jr.  Neil Abercrombie is now Hawaii States 1st district Representative in the US Congress. He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who until 1999, worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America.  Pake Zane runs a store called Antique Alley in Hawaii. Although in the 1960s Hawaii offered a diverse cultural mix, native Hawaiian Pake Zane recalls that He (Obama Sr.) was the first real black man I ever met.

 

Neil Abercrombie  Pake Zane

The sad truth for Barack Hussein Obama Jr, is that Obama Sr didnt return to Hawaii in December 1971 to see his son, but rather to go party with his friends Neil and Pake.  That is why there arent any pictures of Obama Jr. with his dad as an infant, nor are there any pictures of the Dunham grandparents and Obama Sr. Sadly the only picture from when Obama Jrs dad returned to Hawaii is at the airport while Obama Sr. waited for his luggage.  Stanley Ann Dunham was absolutely determined to continue the charade.  Ann and Barack Jr. took turns taking pictures of themselves with Obama Sr.

Kenya


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