Details: Barbara Smith Reed was born in July of 1940 and grew up in Los Angeles, California, in the 1940s. When she was five, one of her classmates said that she was adopted. Her parents had told her that she was adopted, but it wasn't until her classmate ridiculed her that she decided she wanted to meet her mother. One day, her parents had Dr. Sultan, the man who allegedly delivered her, come visit her. He said that her real father had died in World War Two, and that her mother had died while giving birth to her. However, Barbara was certain that her birth parents were still alive. Finally, when Barbara was a teenager, her father gave her the adoption papers. She learned that her mother's name was Victoria Baumgartner; she found no indication that her mother had died in childbirth. In 195