And like other people I will not buy into a 47 year old conspiracy, the reason the birth announcement appeared in the paper using an address Granny knew was safe was to “preserve her daughter’s honor and give a legitimacy to the situation”. Once Ann arrived back in HI I can just hear her parents saying, “Isn’t it a shame Ann’s marriage didn’t work out and she is left to raise the baby on her own?”
Makes perfectly good sense. Another reason would be possibly to give the baby US citizenship, the easy way, if he was born in Canada, or elsewhere outside the US. It's even possible, but not likely, that if he was born outside the US, even HE doesn't know it....although then why "cling" so tightly to his BC?