Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
I had never considered it from that angle. Interesting. What would be the extraordinary outcome of faking the moon landing, then? And what would be the outcome of a giant conspiracy to murder JFK? (Assuming the death of a sitting president is not, in and of itself, a giant outcome, and, hmmm, maybe that's enough in and of itself.)
On the moon landing: To make sure that JFK's challenge was met.

On JFK getting slotted: To put a more agreeable (to the anti-commie reactionaries in the US military and intelligence services) man in the top spot