I think this is from Leo Donofrio:
“According to the birth certificate and COLB of John McCain, McCain was born in Colon Hospital, city of Colon, Panama. While the BC states at the top that it is from the “Canal Zone”, the document also states that McCain was born in Colon Hospital, city of Colon. The city of Colon and the hospital were not in the Canal Zone.
The common story you hear is that McCain was born in the Canal Zone, but these documents posted online do not testify to that. Furthermore, there is no official document that has ever surfaced which states that McCain was born in the Canal Zone.”
More discussion here:
https://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/john-mccain-citizen-of-panama-at-birth/
ALL of Colon was part of the Panama Canal Zone. As you get into the 1945 era, there are parts of the area that were went from military-use to canal-use, and eventually flipped over to the Panama gov’t.
Go and view the map of the complete Canal Zone:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/CanalZone.png
There are people who are trying to view different parts of Colon from 1960s or 1980s....but in the era prior to 1945, it was a fairly large chunk of land which was administered and run by the US gov’t.
