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Originally Posted by JonClarke
Some other possible precursors to the "hoax".
Andrew Chaiken mentions comments by America's oldest man in 1972 has be watched Apollo 17 blasting off that he did not believe any of it. How widely publicised were these views at the time?
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I think publicity was pretty widespread for this story. This is the sort of "human interest" story that newspaper editors always like. IIRC, this guy may have even been born into slavery, which was officially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865.