The 60's. A very turbulent time in our history. President Kennedy was assassinated. His brother Bobby killed while campaigning for the presidency. Martin Luther King shot to death at a rally. The height of the Vietnam war, Woodstock. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Peace, Love, and rock and roll. The Cold War. And a race to land a man on the moon between the Soviets and the United States. A race fueled by a pledge from JFK to land a man on the moon by the turn of the decade. In July of 1969, the United States had won the space race and Neil Armstrong took that one long leap for mankind.
Or did he?......Was the moon landing and Apollo program a mass Government conspiracy to fool the American public and the world to prove that American technology and know how was second to none?
The Grassy Knoll Institute thinks not....Sure we all saw the FOX special on TV and were led to believe that the entire moon landing was done on a giant set created with the lavishness of Hollywood. The set was supposedly located somewhere in Nevada and the astronauts were shuttled in and out on a daily basis while they practiced their lines and routines. So, here we are, all the hoopla of the media talking of the Apollo launch and that Americans will be the first to reach the moon, and not one photo was taken of the astronauts on the shuttle bus going to and fro to the moon set? Not once has anyone of the thousands of people involved produced hard evidence of the hoax? Not one of the hundreds of officials has come clean and announced it was a hoax? Never once were any photos of the studio stage ever published. Why? Because there are none.
Moving on to the photos on the moon. The conspiracy theorists say they were doctored. This Photo shows the flag in the foreground, an astronaut saluting in the back, and the LEM lander. But where are the stars? There are no stars in the sky. Why? Well, any photographer will tell you that pointing the lens towards the sun blocks out the back ground and any stars would be to dim to show up against the suns contrast.
This Photo begs the question, what are those two bright light blobs on the left? Are they spotlights to illuminate the landscape to get better pictures? Again, any photographer will tell you that all photos are never perfect and that at times, imperfections occur. Sometimes the film gets over exposed, and splotches appear on the film. Take a look at your own family album and I'm sure you will find several over exposed photos.
This Photo shows that the photographer was above their target. Was he on a platform high above to get a good shot? Of course not. The moons surface is not flat. There are hills and peaks and crevices on the moon. You can see that the subject astronaut is standing in a depression and that the astronaut taking the photo was simply standing on a higher surface plane.
Let us also realize that these men were astronauts, not photographers, and also had a very cumbersome space suit to deal with when snapping pictures. Not every photo will come out perfect. Some should be out of focus, overexposed, and cropped badly.
In closing, not a single shred of hard evidence has ever been disclosed. Ever. Not one interview or press announcement by NASA or the Government.
The Grassy Knoll Institute believes that Neil Armstrong really did fly to the moon in the Apollo space rocket and that he did take that historic step on the moon in 1969.
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