“His mother couldn’t travel from Hawaii to the mainland with a baby just a few weeks old much less travel from Kenya to the US with a baby that age.”
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Why?.
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I’ve been told a baby that age can’t clear their ears.
Pressure up and down like on a plane will rupture their eardrums.
Also in 1961 jet travel was just getting started into the pacific.
To get back from Kenya she would have had to travel from Kenya to London. From London to NY. From NY to the west coast.
How many stops with each one, who knows. It might take a week or more just to get to the US from Kenya.
In 1961 it wasn’t even a guarantee you could get a baby out of Kenya because of the disease. Immunization laws were a whole lot different then, and that would have to be British laws not US.
His mother was registered to start school in Washington state, she’s going to have her kid where she’s not going to miss out on starting school.
Having a kid in Hawaii or Kenya it’s not a guarantee she can be there to start school.