[lit-ideas] Re: American heroes
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:39:08 -0600
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Uh oh. RP better get to the Bay of Fundy fast. I'm sure the AP is closing
in on somewhere south of Lake Oswego even as I type this.
Good luck,
Mike Geary
respector of copyrights and the CIA.
Memphis
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From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] American heroes
Daredevil Evel Knievel dead at 69
Pop culture icon had been in poor health for years
Posted: Friday November 30, 2007 4:19PM; Updated: Friday November 30, 2007
4:35PM
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle
daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake
River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He
was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He
had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and
pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of
hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of
his bone-shattering spills.
Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's
Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to
jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash
at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before
he retired in 1980.
Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always
had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later
years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing
products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was
celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.
"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their
lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a
loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a
winner."
His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper
Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's
trademarked image in a popular West music video.
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Daredevil Evel Knievel dead at 69 Pop culture icon had been in poor health for yearsPosted: Friday November 30, 2007 4:19PM; Updated: Friday November 30, 2007 4:35PM CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.
Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.
"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."
His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.
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