Western Folklore--Flat Earth Fake

Flat Earth Fake- The down-to-earth leader of the Flat Earth Society Thursday called Lunar Orbiter's photograph of the world a fake. "It's a fraud, a fake, a piece of trickery or deceit," said Samuel Shenton, 63, the British-based secretary of the International Flat Earth Research Society. "Look at the photograph the satellite supposedly took. Notice those lines across the bottom of the picture. They show it's a composite, a mock-up." But why should the Americans-or anyone else-seek to perpetrate such a deception? "It's all a part of the great global earth conspiracy," said Shenton, "and it's a shame." Shenton and his followers-he says he's got them all over the world-believe that the earth is not only flat, but static in space, and that the theory of gravity was advanced to support the spinning earth theory. (AP dispatch from London, to the Dallas Morning News, Aug. 17, 1967)