Brother Can You Share A Father
The news that Clinton might have an unsuspected older half brother broke in a Father’s Day profile of Blythe in The Washington Post. (The first husband of the president’s mother, Virginia Kelley, Blythe died before Clinton was born.) The article cited a marriage certificate showing Blythe had secretly wed a woman named Adele Gash in 1935. They divorced in 1936 but remained friendly. Thirteen months later, Blythe’s ex-wife gave birth to Ritzenthaler (who, like Clinton, subsequently took his stepfather’s name)-and she identified Blythe as the father on her son’s birth certificate....