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Hero
Punch
Jaw
Swear
Fool somebody
EX-ASTRONAUT ALDRIN ATTACKED A JOURNALIST
A journalist who asked astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin – "Did you really go to the moon?” – was attacked by the Apollo 11 hero. He got a punch to the jaw.
Mr Sibrel, a journalist from Nashville, Tennessee, said he wanted make an interview with Aldrin outside a hotel in Beverly Hills when the astronaut punched him and ran away.
"I went up to him and asked him – ‘Did you really go to the moon? Can you swear on the Bible?'. Then I told him he was a thief for taking money to give an interview for something he didn't do,” said the journalist.
The incident was videotaped. Sibrel is making a film about Apollo 11. He wants to prove that the Apollo 11 astronauts didn't go to the moon in July 1969. They just wanted to fool the Soviet Union.
Aldrin was the second man to take a walk on the moon. His feet recorded on grainy black-and-white film and transmitted around the world on July 20, 1969.
In the first of Sibrel's films about Apollo 11, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon," he says that Apollo 11 never left Earth's orbit and that no one has ever walked on the moon. He also produced a Fox TV show last year entitled "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"
Questions
Are the statements correct?
1. The 1969 film from the moon was colorful.
2. The attack wasn't recorded.
3. Mr Aldrin's feet were very famous in 1969.
4. Mr Sibrel doesn't believe that the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
5. Mr Aldrin attacked Mr Sibrel on the street.
6. Mr Sibrel has already made one film about the Apollo 11.
7. No one has ever walked on the Moon.
8. Mr Sibrel says that the 1969 landing on the Moon was just an American propaganda.
9. Mr Aldrin doesn't read the Bible.
10. Mr Aldrin stole some money for an interview.