30-07-2012, 10:49 PM
Fascinating! This means part of Obama's ancestry goes way back, even so far back before the American Revoilution.
I have a question, not concerning Obama, but about another possible relative who is famous from World War II.
That would be Ralph Bunche. Most readers may not know of him, but those old enough to recall that war
would know that Ralph Bunche, an African-American, was Director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
in the European Theater of War. After the war, he worked in the United Nations and was responsible for many
peace-making activies throughout the world, particularly in Africa.
My Sociology professor in college, Dr. Jack Harris, had been in the OSS and worked under Ralph Bunche
during the war. Dr. Harris left teaching to go to work with Ralph Bunche at the United Nations.
I am wondering if Ralph Bunche's ancestry was also from the same family group that began with John Punch.
One group of descendants went to Virginia, and the other went to the Carolinas. Does anyone here know?
Adele
I have a question, not concerning Obama, but about another possible relative who is famous from World War II.
That would be Ralph Bunche. Most readers may not know of him, but those old enough to recall that war
would know that Ralph Bunche, an African-American, was Director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
in the European Theater of War. After the war, he worked in the United Nations and was responsible for many
peace-making activies throughout the world, particularly in Africa.
My Sociology professor in college, Dr. Jack Harris, had been in the OSS and worked under Ralph Bunche
during the war. Dr. Harris left teaching to go to work with Ralph Bunche at the United Nations.
I am wondering if Ralph Bunche's ancestry was also from the same family group that began with John Punch.
One group of descendants went to Virginia, and the other went to the Carolinas. Does anyone here know?
Adele