to go to the Moon" speech was in 1962, not 1961 as was claimed. Luna 9 landed on the Moon in February 1966, but the narrator states it was in January. The narrator states that Apollo 11 was launched on 17 July 1969, when in fact it was launched the day before on July 16. Korolev died following surgery to remove a polyp from his intestines, not from a tonsillectomy as is claimed. Lyndon Johnson is said to have been the Governor of Texas – an office he never held. Likewise, Richard Nixon is erroneously stated as having once been the Governor of California. The narrator implies the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was selected in part due to the George H. W. Bush family influence in Florida, yet no Bush had any connection with Florida until 1980 when Jeb Bush moved his family there. The Cape, however, had become the new missile test facility by 1950. The premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey was in April 1968 and Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president in January 1969, so the latter could not possibly take advantage of the filming of 2001 as the narrator says. Farouk El-Baz is presented as NASA technical director, a position he never held. Most of the fictitious witnesses are named after characters from movies directed by Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock. "W.A. Koenigsberg" is named after Woody Allen, who was born "Allan Koenigsberg". They are listed in the credits along with the names of the actors portraying them. The film crew member who takes shelter in a yeshiva in Brooklyn is said to be an "acidic" Jew. In the original French version the giveaway is more obvious: it is said that "he didn't work any more, he checked in with the Hasidic", ("Il ne travaillait plus, il pointait aux Hassidiques", which does not make sense in French but is an obvious pun between a branch of Judaism and ASSEDIC which was the French employment office at the time the film was made). The soundtrack also includes the song "The American Dream" from Wag the Dog by Barry Levinson, a fiction feature about a secretly government-commissioned Hollywood production of a fake war. At one point, footage featuring the military boarding a plane is underscored by the "right, left, right, left" of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) from Kubrick's own film, Full Metal Jacket. The giveaway