NASA and Moon Landing (A Link)

The World History Blog refers to a report from Reuters and writes:

The news report notes, "The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,' a NASA spokesman said on Monday."

I've written a comment on this blog. However, on this blog, I have one more idea to add. The blog post explains that many revisionists wonder if the original recording of the moon landing ever existed, just like many Holocaust revisionists claim that this tragedy never happened. As teachers we have a responsibility to help our students distinguish between fact and fantasy. At the same time they need to understand that sometimes they have to connect the dots themselves to prove that something happened, an abundance of hard evidence may not exist. I believe that only a fool would say that people never landed on the moon, even if we never find the original recording. Only a fool would say that the Holocaust never happened. There's an overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to these things, even if we can't fully prove them.