11/30/2007 - News from E!

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b56868_Death_of_a_Daredevil_Evel_Knievel_RIP.html

DEATH of A DAREDEVIL: RiP

Knievel, the caped 1970s showman who, thanks to a trusty chopper and sheer abandon, jumped land and water masses with a single bound (and sometimes a few bounces), and landed among the Watergate era's pop-culture elite, died Friday, the Associated Press reported.

Knievel was 69—not ancient, but not bad for a man who bragged about making the Guinness Book of World Records on the strength, as it were, of 35 broken bones.

"Every time I make a jump, I thank God when it comes down, no matter how far I went," Knievel told ABC Sports in 1973.

From his roots as a high-school ski jumper in his native Montana to his rise on Wide World of Sports, the premiere TV sports showcase of its day, Robert Craig Knievel went a very long way. 

If one could judge the folk heroes of the 1970s by walking a toy aisle, one would conclude that Knievel ranked among the giants: Muhammad Ali, the Six Million Dollar Man and Fonzie. ...

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