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Understood, and have taken into account.

The video clip you show is the introduction of the Mercury 7, almost 10 years before we landed on the moon, went to space. These men seem more excited than the men who actually landed on the moon. If you watch all 3 parts of the interview you posted, you will see a smirk that rarely left John Glenn's face that would make the Cheshire cat envious. The rest of the Mercury 7 still show a lot more enthusiasm that the first people to walk on the moon.




Personally, and just my observation, I think it's very, very odd. 



Second event would be either the Vietnam war, I think this is where mass media discovered it's power to mold public perception.  Next would be 9/11.

My apologies, I miss-led you, not intentionally!

The first mass media event was the assasination of JFK. The second was the first moon landing!

Interesting, how Vietnam war was played-out by the media over the course of years. I remember well, sitting down to family dinner, as a young boy and the network news lead-in, was always how many men died the day before!  I distinctly  recall thinking, "will I grow up, just to die in this war?". Heavy thought for such a young impressionable mind.

Nothing about that war ever made any sense to me, until a few years ago. When I read and understood the inccident in the Gulf of Tonkin and who was involved. Did you know Jim Morrison of the Doors, father played a key role? Today, I firmly believe that every war, since the French Revolution at least, has been a planned event!

And yes, certainly 9/11 makes the top 5 list too! Maybe the largest single media-event that's ever occured, in history.
The three men, who had recently leased the WTC, made 2.4 billion on a 140 million investment, when those towers and building 7 came down, not a bad payday, huh?

It's all about controlling the masses and making money while doing so!