The competition for media attention was tough in july 1969
There was a flash flood and a fireworks explosion on july 4th that got national attention.
July 18 drunk Teddy K drives off a bridge and drowns his date .
in August 7,8 th manson family starts there killings
Hurricane Camile cat 5 destroys much of new Orleans coast area mid month
but of course the main focus of the media was the moon shot.
I only really care to read non-fiction and do not have much time for that now .
I read Dark moon and the Apollo Whistle Blowers 15 yrs. ago. I wonder if any others here have ?
If Apollo 11 was a fake then the US could use all the news stories diverting attention from apollo 11.
I have one story to relate about that time.
As a kid in 69, I was about a C student my parents forced me to watch all the boring Cronkite footage preceding the launch, 2-3 hours a day. The only thing that was remotely intersting was when cronkite held up this model of the command module and LEM . Revell made a model of it and every kid wanted it but they were sky high $$$.
On July 3-4th 69 I stayed at a B F house and at night his dad got a big refractor telescope out .I wanted to see the moon ,which is hard to do. later The BF and his dad showed me how to see satelites orbiting just after dark . On what i think was July 18 -the day after cronkite said the Apollo 11 has left orbit for the moon this kid and I were laying on our backs watching the moon and satelites around 9;20 pm ,when we both saw a big satelite looking just like the command and LEM together overhead and as it was E fading some , a orange glow surounded it and it seemed to slow down greatly maybe landing in the ocean ?

