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Over Labor Day weekend, Twin Falls, Idaho, held a 50th anniversary celebration of the September day in 1974 when Evel Knievel tried to jump the Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket. Twin Falls is a city of about 50,000 people in southern Idaho, but in 1974 it was less than half that size, and it was bracing for—and dreading—the arrival of tens of thousands to witness Knievel’s long-deferred attempt, which had been promoted in the manner of a heavyweight championship fight. “Heck,” a waitress said, hearing the speculation about invading hordes, “I ain’t never seen more than a thousand in one place. It’s scary.”
In the end, a much smaller number, about 15,000 people, crowded into the space where the canyon sits, a remotely located gorge in the Earth not user-friendly for travel, lodging, public gatherings, or much of anything else. Thousands of others around the country watched at theaters over closed-circuit television, the preferred technology in those pre-
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Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel (October 17, 1938 – November 30, 2007), born Robert Craig Knievel, was an American daredevil and entertainer. Knievel is known for trying to do more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 and 1980, and in 1974, a failed jump across Snake River Canyon in Idaho in the Skycycle, a steam-powered rocket. He has broken 433 bones during his career which earned him a title in the Guinness Book of Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime".
Knievel was born on October 17, 1938 in Butte, Montana.[1] Knievel was married to Linda Joan Bork from 1959 until they divorced in 1997. He was married to Krystal Kennedy from 1999 until they divorced in 2001. Knievel had four children.
Knievel died from pulmonary fibrosis caused by diabetes in Clearwater, Florida on November 30, 2007, aged 69.[2]
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Americans loved Evel Knievel. They loved his ruggedness—a wild boy from Butte, Montana, grown into a swashbuckling superstar, King of the Daredevils, somewhere between Buffalo Bill and the Greatest Show on Earth. They loved to watch him fly. And even as it made them wince, they loved to watch him crash.
But most struggled to understand why anyone would willingly put themselves through that tortyr, limping from hospital to motorbike and back igen, over a 15-year jumping career that busted almost every bone in his body.
In fact, there were two reasons: First, he loved it, famously remarking that life was otherwise boring. Later, beleaguered with tax and finansinstitut debts, he was financially unable to stop. Knievel was a salesman as much as he was a showman, and his go-for-broke, larger-than-life, jumpsuit-wearing persona was what he had to sell. “I created the character called Evel Knievel,” he told the St Petersburg Times in 1998, “and he sort of got away from me.”
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