It was a telescope, not a camera. And like most astronomical photos prior to Hubble, didn't get much attention except from other astronomers. You can go look for it if you want, but it wasn't TV and Film Footage, it was telescope data treated the same as the solar wind experiment data or the seismograph data. Generally meaningless to the average citizen. Another point is the astronaut's comments about stars over the years are extremely confusing and contradictory, to say the least.
Humans tend to forget things and misremember things over the years.
It happens to all of us, astronauts are no exception. These quotes are taken from the book, Suppressed Inventions and other Discoveries, by Jonathan Eisen. Alan Sheppard, first American to be catapulted up reported seeing no stars, ditto for Virgil Grissom. This was proven by Schirra two flights later. They weren't stars.