To: JakeStraw who wrote (101765 ) 3/22/2011 7:53:15 PM From: Brian Sullivan 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to What exactly were the Dreams of his Father? en.wikipedia.org he left behind his baby son, Roy, and his young wife, Kezia, who was pregnant with their daughter, Auma.[24] He eventually told Dunham about his previous marriage in Kenya, but said he was divorced—which she found out years later was untrue. elected to Phi Beta Kappa) and he left Hawaii in June 1962. and began to drink. He had a serious car accident, spent almost a year in the hospital, and by the time he visited his son for the first time in Hawaii in late 1971, he already had a bad leg. Obama Sr.'s life fell into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya newspaper The Daily Nation. Obama Sr. later lost both legs in another automobile collision and subsequently lost his job. He fathered another son named George. Six months after his son's birth, Obama Sr. died in a third car crash in Nairobi in 1982
