Lies, Damn Lies and Carol Channing

At dinner last night a friend of mine told a story that Carol Channing supposedly told. The story goes like this:

Carol Channing attended grade school in San Francisco. In her class was this young Japanese boy. Carol thought he was a talented artist and was very jealous of his painting skills. And who was this young Japanese boy? None other than General Isoruku Yamamoto.
Carol told this story often in her shows, and one night after a show, a man excitedly came up to her.
"You knew Yamamoto?" he said.
"Yes," she said. "Did you know him?"
"I shot him."

Badda boom. Badda bing.

The truth is that the story, although made from things like those found in facts, is completely bogus. And here's why:

One, General Yamamoto was born in 1884. Carol Channing is old, but she's not that old. She was born in 1921.
That fact alone rules out the story. It's true, however, that General Yamamoto did spend some time in the States. He studied at Harvard from 1919 to 1921 and later returned to the US on a diplomatic assignment in 1925.
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Two, General Yamamoto was not killed by a firing squad. He was assassinated.
In 1943, the US intercepted and decoded a message that gave General Yamamoto's itinerary. The message stated that Yamamoto would be flying to the island of Bougainville in the South Pacific. A squadron of P-38 pilots, under the command of Maj. John Mitchell, intercepted Yamamoto's convoy and shot down the bomber in which Yamamoto was flying.
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Three, it's not clear that Carol Channing attended grade school in San Francisco. She attended junior high in San Francisco, but she was born in Seattle. It's unclear when her family moved to San Francisco.
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