Tom Mboya meet with Senator John F. Kennedy on July 26th 1960 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts to discuss funding for the second African student airlift.
Image credit: Susan Mboya – Zawadi Africa Educational Program.
The Kennedy family donated $100,000 which was primarily used to pay for a second airlift which occurred in September, 1960.
This second airlift appears to have consisted of four separate flights of students. 
It appears that a combined total of 295 students were flown from Kenya Colony to New York. In contrast to the September 1959 airlift which consisted of 79 Kenyans and just 2 other African nationalities the September 196o airlift consisted of students from Kenya and six other East African countries.
Image credit: http://www.jfklibrary.org/
The United States Department of Justice Annual Report (1961) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) indicates that, from June 30th 1960 thru June 30th 1961, there were 282 aliens (non-US citizen) who traveled, by air, from Kenya to the United States. Moreover, the report indicates that there were also three (3) US citizens who traveled, by air, from Kenya to the United States:
https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofim1961unit#page/68/mode/1up
After skeptics read our recent reports (PN-4 and PN-3) regarding the flaws and inaccuracies found in USDJ Annual Reports for the INS some of them countered by arguing that the INS Annual Reports are not flawed, nor are they inaccurate, because (they say) the Kenyans, and the two other Africans, who flew to New York probably didn’t have direct-flights and must a have embarked to the USA in some other country in Europe before arriving in New York.
Before we go any further lets makes sure we all know what a direct flight is:
According to Wikipedia– A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers, which may include a stop at an intermediate point.
[1] The stop over may either be to get new passengers (or allow some to disembark) or a mere technical stop over (i.e., for refuelling). Direct flights are often confused with non-stop flights, which are flights involving no intermediate stops.
[2] When there is a change in flight number, the subsequent flight is referred to as a connecting flight.
Wikipedia makes it sound a little more difficult than it should be. Typically a direct flight means that you may make stops but you will remain on the same airplane. Sometimes there may be a change of airplane but the flight number remains the same.
I DON’T agree with Wikipedia’s “[2]” definition.
In any event I first want ask the skeptics just how exactly did they figure (hypothetically at least) that Stanley Ann Dunham would have flown from Kenya to the United States in 1961?
How can you rule out Stanley Ann Dunham traveling, by air, from Kenya to the United States in 1961 because she she wasn’t listed in the USDJ Annual Report for the INS (1962) but at the same time give the African students a pass on grounds that they probably didn’t have direct-flights from Kenya the United States?
Essentially, here’s the question:
Could Stanley Ann Dunham traveled, by air, from Kenya to the United States and NOT be listed in the USDJ Annual Report for the INS?
Furthermore, why is that the second African student airlift (September 1960) is recorded in the USDJ Annual Report (1961) for the INS? The 1961 Annual Report indicates that the 282 aliens and 3 US citizens arrived in the United States, by air travel, from Kenya between the dates of June 30th 1960 and June 30th 1961.
While the numbers still appear to be flawed and inaccurate (reportedly 295 African students arrived, not 282) its obvious that these the 282 aliens are the students from the second African airlift.
Why would the first African student airlift not be recorded by the Annual Reports for the INS but the second African student airlift would be recorded by the Annual Reports for the INS?
Evidently the Annual Reports for the INS are flawed, unsound, inaccurate and exceedingly unreliable.
I want to touch for just a moment again on the skeptics’ theory about the first African Airlift students not having direct-flights. From photographs that I have seen from the departure and arrival of the September 1959 African student airlift it appears (windows, stripe, design) that the same exact airplane that left Nairobi was the same one that later arrived in New York:
These photographs appears to support a direct-flight. But yet they passengers are not recorded in the USDJ Annual Report (1960) of the INS.
In any event, no one ever said that Stanley Ann Dunham traveled on a direct-flight when she flew from Nairobi, Kenya to the United States. I’m not even sure that there were any normal commercial direct-flights back in 1961 when traveling from Kenya to the United States.
Even today, in 2014, it appears that when flying between Kenya and the United States that most (if not all) flights are NOT direct flights. I read a USA Today article from January 29th 2014 in which that following is stated:
New Boeing Dreamliners, the opening of a new terminal, and, on the horizon, Kenya’s first direct flights to the USA. The CEO of Kenya Airways is predicting an exciting couple of years for African air travel.
Kenya Airways aims for major expansion, flights to USA
[NOTE: I’m not even sure that direct-flights to the United States are very safe. I’ve experienced pretty weak security checkpoints when entering airports in Africa and the Caribbean. Its nothing at all like the security that you encounter when entering airports in the United States or in Europe.]
Conclusion:
The 1959 African Airlift was not recorded in the USDJ Annual Report (1960) for the INS.
The 1960 African Airlift was recorded in in the USDJ Annual Report (1961) for the INS.
No matter how you slice it the USDJ Annual Reports for the INS are flawed, inaccurate, unsound and exceedingly unreliable.
The 1962 Annual Report cannot be used as evidence that Stanely Ann Dunham (or anyone else) did not travel, by air, from Kenya to the United States.
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