According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.
Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic
senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004
Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an
American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in
Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.
By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic
senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004
Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to
an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised
in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama had already been a national figure for three years, since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, by the time the biography was changed; he had been a sitting Senator for over two years.
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