death_date death_place children birth_place nationality name parents birth_date spouse residence article_title education birth_name occupation death_cause
21 april 2005 santa barbara , california 2 chicago , illinois american bill kaysing charles william kaysing 31 july 1922 carol cole kaysing m. de ridder -lrb- divorced -rrb- ; ruth henderson , nevada bill kaysing
 university of redlands , b.a. english william charles kaysing author complications following an angioplasty procedure
bill kaysing

william charles kaysing -lrb- july 31 , 1922 -- april 21 , 2005 -rrb- was a writer best known for claiming that the six apollo moon landings between july 1969 and december 1972 were hoaxes .
he is regarded as the initiator of the moon hoax movement .
