as for the motive, it was rock solid. it was 1969 for fucks sake. we needed to look better than the russians, and we needed to give the white man an easy win after forcing niggers down his throat at gunpoint. thirdly: the tet offensive. news hadnt trickled in yet, but the men in charge knew that the so-called greatest country on earth was going to lose to a bunch of yellow communists. had every reason to fake the moon landing.
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