John writes:

> I think the devotees of conspiracy theories are influenced primarily by
>  movies.  There have been many movies involving people victimized by
(usually
>  nameless) top-secret government agencies.  I guess seeing this theme
>  repeated so often causes it to seem real to some.  Certainly the Watergate
>  scandal and the Warren Commission's inadequate investigation of the JFK
>  assassination don't help.  In the case of the moon landings, there was a
>  film that presented this scenario, although I do not recall its title.
>  Another similar film, "Wag the Dog" deals with a phony war, staged to
>  salvage the political career of the American President.  It is based on a
>  novel in which the theme is that George Bush and Saddam Hussein conspired
to
>  stage the Gulf War.

Could the moon landings have been faked, at least using today's technology?
The following is from
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/000216effects.html:

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Rob Legato, who won an Oscar nomination for his work on Apollo 13, said one
of his proudest moments came the day he showed film clips of the movie in
production to the astronaut who had co-piloted the Apollo 11 mission that
landed Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969.

"I'd picked a favorite shot from stock footage of the real launch, then
imagined a camera panning and tilting, and embellished what I thought I
remembered," Legato said. "Buzz Aldrin looked at the clip and said, 'Where
did you get this stuff?' He believed it was the real thing."

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Wirt Atmar

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