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(ABC) April 7 : The “Find My Family” series will present a two-hour documentary special on Sunday, April 17. The feature, titled “Palm Sunday Special,” focuses on a search conducted on behalf of Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), to find her family of origin. Bachmann had requested the search in April of 2009, in anticipation for a potential run for national office in 2012.

Rep. Bachmann's birth certificate, from the First General Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa, identifies her as “Michele Marie 'Unknown',” born on April 6, 1956. She was adopted by David and Jean Amble ten days later.

“All I knew for sure was that my 'birth-mother' was a young teenager,” Rep. Bachmann tells “Find My Family.”

The Amble divorced when Michele was a small child. “My father was intent upon aborting me when I was three,” Rep. Bachmann says. “But my mother, a Lutheran, was pro-life. Clearly, my birth-mother was a Christian, too. This is the foundation of my strong family values positions.”

The previously long-sealed court records show that Rep. Bachmann's birth-mother was a sixteen year old named Anita Jane Bryant (dob: 3-25-40). “Find My Family” has found that the teenager, a product of a broken Christian home, had been a “run-away” in the mid-1950s. In an initial interview, Ms. Bryant tells “Find My Family” that she believes that the father of the infant she put up for adoption was a small-time car thief named “Charles.”

To the best of her recollection, his middle name was “Willis,” although she said she was not at liberty to identify his last name. “He was charming …. a performer. He had a hypnotic effect on those of us who followed him,” Bryant said. “This may go a long way in explaining the hypnotized affect that Michele has today.”

Bryant was herself a performer, best known for her two “Top 40 Hits,” the 1961 “I Can't Do It by Myself,” which reached # 87; and 1962's “The World of Lonely People,” which topped the charts at #59. Bryant became the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission in 1969. She also reached infamy as a Christian-Values political spokesperson in the 1970s.

http://www.cbs.findmyfamily.april72011/bryant&bachmann.com