I wondered also whether they had lost the footage of these other landings and whether they had been examined closely by more knowledgeable persons as to their authenticity.
If you are truly interested instead of "just asking questions", it would be trivially easy to find that out.
Many years later and neither of us believe that this first moon landing by man is real. To be specific, what we saw as children on Television was not real.
First, why is television randomly capitalized? Second, you're opinion is wrong. There are mountains of evidence proving you wrong.
They had so much to gain by faking it.
What, specifically, did they have to gain?
We are not scientists and even if we were we would still need to have worked or have knowledge of this specialized field. I say this because it means that there are not a great deal of people who would be qualified enough to say whether the moon landing in 1969 was possible and whether the USA had the capability to do so at the time.
They are hundreds of thousands of people qualified to say, and they all say "yes, we did".
It is amazing how NASA managed to have the event televised around the World onto our Television with very little problems. For years after it was very difficult to transmit live from overseas, it wasn't a common event and rarely went smoothly.
These are two completely unrelated topics.
It was enlightening to see the public reaction to the claim that Iraq was hiding a large amount of weapons of mass destruction. It wasn't worth the angst in trying to tell others that we were being lied to but to see them agreeing to send people over there to fight a war was shocking. Unfortunately the propaganda machine is much more powerful than a few doubters.
Also an unrelated topic. However, there was at the time plenty of opposition to the Iraq invasion and belief that the government was not being honest.