Apr 28, 2022 02:09 AM
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EXCERPTS: . . . Bill Kaysing had worked as a technical writer and head of technical publications for the company Rocketdyne in the years before the Apollo 11 mission, as told by his daughter Wendy. He quit the company in 1963 and began leading a more non-conformist lifestyle on the fringes of society. His trust in the government, and most facets of the modern world, grew tenuous.
Years after the moon landing took place, he wrote the book that started it all: "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle." This work gained traction with many other like-minded people and ushered in what we know today as the moon landing conspiracy.
After Bill Kaysing left his job at Rocketdyne, he eventually became something of a vagabond, as explained in his obituary by The Independent. [...] Kaysing was a writer first and foremost and he published works that instructed others on how they could lead a life similar to his own. There came to be, however, an anti-status quo undertone in his later writings that eventually gave way to a conspiratorial mindset.
At first, the idea to write a book on how the moon landing was faked was meant to be a work of satire; this was agreed upon with the publishing company that gave him a contract. As Kaysing got into writing the book, though, the "evidence" he came up with began to persuade him until he felt like what he was writing was the truth, as he explained in a 1975 interview with the Los Angeles Free Press...
[...] Even before Bill Kaysing came out with his book, distrust in the government was toiling among the U.S. population in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, as explained by Gallup...
Even though the moon landing conspiracy now pales in comparison to the damage done by the likes of anti-vax groups and QAnon, it's certainly one of the earliest examples of widespread misinformation that laid the bedrock for similar paranoid conspiracies to come... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: . . . Bill Kaysing had worked as a technical writer and head of technical publications for the company Rocketdyne in the years before the Apollo 11 mission, as told by his daughter Wendy. He quit the company in 1963 and began leading a more non-conformist lifestyle on the fringes of society. His trust in the government, and most facets of the modern world, grew tenuous.
Years after the moon landing took place, he wrote the book that started it all: "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle." This work gained traction with many other like-minded people and ushered in what we know today as the moon landing conspiracy.
After Bill Kaysing left his job at Rocketdyne, he eventually became something of a vagabond, as explained in his obituary by The Independent. [...] Kaysing was a writer first and foremost and he published works that instructed others on how they could lead a life similar to his own. There came to be, however, an anti-status quo undertone in his later writings that eventually gave way to a conspiratorial mindset.
At first, the idea to write a book on how the moon landing was faked was meant to be a work of satire; this was agreed upon with the publishing company that gave him a contract. As Kaysing got into writing the book, though, the "evidence" he came up with began to persuade him until he felt like what he was writing was the truth, as he explained in a 1975 interview with the Los Angeles Free Press...
[...] Even before Bill Kaysing came out with his book, distrust in the government was toiling among the U.S. population in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, as explained by Gallup...
Even though the moon landing conspiracy now pales in comparison to the damage done by the likes of anti-vax groups and QAnon, it's certainly one of the earliest examples of widespread misinformation that laid the bedrock for similar paranoid conspiracies to come... (MORE - missing details)