Evel Knievel

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Maybe someone can help me out here. I recall as a kid in the 1970s watching Evel Knievel's canyon jump.
Unless my memory has failed me, I thought he postponed it because of illness or at least self declared illness. I remember him being shown lying in bed.
My mom watched a little bit with me(she was on the way out to play bridge or something with my dad)and she said he did not seem to look that sick.
Now, I can find nothing on the internet about this. Has this been whitewashed?
 
jeff2 said:
Maybe someone can help me out here. I recall as a kid in the 1970s watching Evel Knievels canyon jump.
Unless my memory has failed me, I thought he postponed it because of illness or at least self declared illness. I remember him being shown lying in bed.
My mom watched a little bit with me(she was on the way out to play bridge or something with my dad)and she said he did not seem to look that sick.
Now, I can find nothing on the internet about this. Has this been whitewashed?
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September 8, 1974 - Evel Knievel attempts to jump Snake River Canyon - This Day in Automotive History
 
 
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At his best…

 
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And finally…


it is totally worth going down that YouTube rabbit hole
 
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There's an Evel Knievel museum in Niagara falls. Lots of his stuff there. Motorcycles, jackets, boots....etc. everything authentic.(y)
 
I'm surprised he kept going after the ill-fated Caesar's Palace fountain jump., circa 1967.

 
jeff2 said:
Maybe someone can help me out here. I recall as a kid in the 1970s watching Evel Knievel's canyon jump.
Unless my memory has failed me, I thought he postponed it because of illness or at least self declared illness. I remember him being shown lying in bed.
My mom watched a little bit with me(she was on the way out to play bridge or something with my dad)and she said he did not seem to look that sick.
Now, I can find nothing on the internet about this. Has this been whitewashed?
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she said he did not seem to look that sick.
Now, I can find nothing on the internet about this. Has this been whitewashed?

told his mom he had a bit of a headache after something like this.



Might have just wanted a day off from school, but I would cut him some slack.
 
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Why do I have this feeling that Evel pulled the chute intentionally?
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