fake. planted by his family or someone else who wanted to trick the world into believing the future president was born in the u.s. this is a long-time newspaper reporter in hon new lu. >> a number of people who believe barack obama wasn't born in the united states his mother or grandmother called the newspaper and gave false information he was born in the united states. is it possible that could have gotten in the newspaper like that? >> that's not possible. under the system that existed back then there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. >> how did the information get in the paper? >> directly from the state department of health. >> reporter: we confirmed that with the health department too. all birth announcements in the paper came directly from the birth records of the hospital. so why won't president obama just release a copy of his original birth certificate? there are some who say he won't do it because the word muslim is on it. but we've taken a look at the original birth certificate of another man and where there are extra spaces on it for hospital and for ages of the parents and for the occupation of the