it s the same form barack obama has. the very same form every hawaiian now gets when they request their birth certificate. has his name on it, his birth date, august 5th, 1961, the day after the president. it says it was filed august 8th, 1961. this is a raised seal to show its authenticity. and on the bottom perhaps the most important line. this copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding. nobody we talked to doubts stig s citizenship. but a cnn poll shows 25% of americans doubt president obama s. another part of the conspiracy theory is that the birth announcement in the paper is a 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. dan nakaso is a long-time newspaper reporter in honolulu. there are a number of people who believe barack obama wasn t born in the united states, that his mother or grandmother called the newspaper and gave false information he was born
dan nakaso is a long-time newspaper reporter in honolulu. there are a number of people who believe barack obama wasn t born in the united states, that 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? no. that s not possible. under the system that existed back then there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. so how did the information get in the paper? information came directly from the state department of health. reporter: we confirmed that fact with the health department too. all birth announcements printed 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? well, 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 vault birth certificate of another man, and while there are extra spaces