“How doe we explain the birth announcement for August 1961 in the Honolulu newspaper.”
Because they are not official press releases; they are merely announcement the anyone, usually family, asks the paper to run. The fact there was one says something is fishy and his mother wanted people to think he was born in the US. People didn’t usually do birth announcements.
“If the documents are deemed verifiable,.....”
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Hawaii was known to be *flexible* in issuing birth certificates to Americans retiring from points further out in the Pacific in those days. I'll bet the newspaper birth announcements were common among people who knew that a birth record was questionable - a little extra "insurance", so to speak.