[This is one of the first occurrences in print linking
director Stanley Kubrick to fake moon landings. Hoffman, however, unlike later
conspiratologists, isn't serious.]
Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock
Nation: A Talk-Rock Album (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), p. 40.
Last night a group of us weirdos sat up all night and
watched what has to be the greatest TV show, in fact, the “Greatest Show on
Earth,” as old John Ringling North of circus fame would have put it. “Armstrong
slithers out of the capsule…” One really can’t help but get caught up in the
majesty of it all, the holiness, this birth of the New Age. There they are now.
Wow! Is it real? Or is it one of those back-lot Hollywood sets … it’s too bad
Walt Disney didn’t live to see this one … Yep! It’s beyond 2001! Stanley
Kubrick’s gotta be head of NASA.