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Forty years ago on July 24, 1969, over 600 million people around the world watched Neil Armstrong become the first human being to set foot on another planet. The Secrets of the Moon Landing on Monday at 11 P.M. on the National Geographic Channel presents the untold stories of Apollo II’s mission and the five moon landings that followed. These were the most costly and dangerous single expeditions ever undertaken by any government at any time in history. In all, 24 men ventured a quarter-million miles from home, relying on just a single engine. It is a gripping account of Niel Armstrong’s first footstep on the moon. Fall of a tycoon He was born Jan Ludvich Hoch in an impoverished family in Czechoslovakia. Yet he grew up to become one of the most influential—and crooked—media barons the world has ever seen. Jan Ludvich Hoch moved to England in 1940 and changed his name to Robert Maxwell. He set up the Maxwell Communications Corporation and became a Labour MP in 1964. Maxwell died on November 5, 1991 under the mysterious circumstances.
Maxwell on Saturday at 8 P.M. on the History and Entertainment Channel is based on the enigmatic media tycoon, a man obsessed with wealth, power and his rival Rupert Murdoch whom he wanted to professionally eliminate from the publishing world. Yet, in the end it was the world of Maxwell that fell apart and he had no choice but to take his own life. —
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