President Obama has claimed his father's education in the United States was financed through the efforts of Kenyan independence leader Tom Mboya and President John F. Kennedy, but newspaper archives indicate Barack Obama Sr. came to Hawaii in 1959 with his own savings.
Previously, WND reported that Barack Obama Sr. was not brought to the U.S. to study in Hawaii in 1959 by any organized airlift of Kenyan students, including those organized by baseball great Jackie Robinson, with the assistance of JFK.
Nor was Obama Sr. on any of the three subsequently chartered airplanes in what became known as the "second airlift" organized by Mboya in 1960 after Joseph P. Kennedy contributed $100,000 to Robinson's effort.
Obama's father spent personal savings
WND has found in the newspaper archives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., a Honolulu Star-Bulletin article by reporter Shurei Hirozawa, published Sept. 19, 1959. The article contains an interview with Barack Obama Sr. shortly after he arrived in Hawaii from Kenya.
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"He (Obama Sr.) clerked several years in the capital city of Nairobi to save enough for a college education and picked the University of Hawaii when he read in an American magazine about its racial tolerance," Hirozawa wrote.
"But the money he saved will only stretch out for two semesters or less because of the high cost of living in Hawaii, he found out," Hirozawa continued. "He'll work, he says, and probably apply for a scholarship."
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