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By James A. Hill Staff Writer Sydney Lewis Kahn, a Cincinnati fur rier, was at work as usual Tuesday morn ing when he answered a telephone inquiry about his mother from the Gazette. “I don’t even know what she looks like,”” Kahn said. I can’t remember that I ever saw her. As far as I know she lives in Cali fornia near San Francisco. Kahn went on to say his mother and father were divorced when he was quite young. “We have tried for several years to con tact my mother, Kahn said, “but we've had no success. I heard somewhere that she got married again, to a doctor out there somewhere. I have no idea what his name is.” Kahn said his name used to be Sydney Lewis Manning II after his mother’s first husband who is his true father. His name was legally changed to Kahn when he was formally adopted by his ma ternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Kahn, in Charleston in the 1990s. Mr. Kahn died in 1964 and Mrs. Kahn is now Mrs. C. E. Bailey of Cincinnati. “I's a big, long story that I just don't want to talk about right now,” Kahn said. AT THIS POINT, Kahn asked the reason for the questions, “You're kidding.’ .was, his shocked re play when told that his ‘mother is believed to be the same woman being held by the FBI in San Francisco for shooting at Pres ident Ford. “I don't believe it. Really, I don't want anything written that would connect me with that woman. Really, I think you've made a mistake. I never heard of any Sara Jane Moore,”the name given by the sus pect to authorities after her arrest Mon day. “I don’t (ink { better say any more,” he said before hanging up the phone. Approximately two hours later Kahn called the Gazette from his Cincinnati off ice and declared: don’t think it's my mother they're holding. For one thing the age doesn’t fit. Don't write that she is my mother.” A short time later, Kahn admitted to a Washington Post writer working out of the Gazette office that the woman in San Francisco is his mother. ‘I don't want anything to do with her.” Kahn said. “She abandoned me when I was young and I just don't want anything more to ith her.”
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Wed, Sep 24, 1975
Page 37
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