Isn’t this a bit of de ja vue for all of you? And, I hope anyone who accessed FOIA documents has copy since information may become permanently unavaiable.
Without digging back through the megathread to early last summer, I recall that this exact trail and the photos were ‘hot’ back then.
Then we had the expert ‘detractors’ jump in the thread and declare S.Armor Dunham was not the guy in the photos or they somehow disappeared leaving a cold trail.
Really, why would the guy ‘from the furniture store’ be greeting African students at the airport or dock? Armour’s history of starting in Kansas and passing through Texas? California? and settling on in Washington prior to Hawaii is ‘stinky’. In the 1940’s & 50’s, men just didn’t jump in the car with a young family and criss-cross the country, ‘city-hopping’ for jobs as a furniture salesman. I’d be curious to know the extent of his customer base at the stores in Seattle or Honolulu. Did this guy really work there? There are just as many unknowns about that SAD as there are about his offspring.
BTW, did the initials on young Ann’s pinafore jumper in the posed family portrait ever lead to any definitive location? I had recieved email wayback that the school was in the ME (Lebanon) and assumed it was another wild goose chase, but anything is possible.
A while ago people were discussing the initials on the jumper and it seemed to me that they were initials at a local private school.
I agree that Stanley Dunham’s history would be useful. If that is indeed him he in the picture (and it looks as though it is), why is he there? In 1959 he would have just arrived in HI, it was a very insular community, he would be a nobody and know no one. What is the connection? There is a connection, it’s been hidden from view.
that kind of thing happened again and again, it distracted from the direction of our enquiries, and as you said, the trail ran cold. The least I ask from now on is that opinions be stated as such, and any information be accompanied by a link or a source.