"announcer: the following program isbroughtto you inlivingcolor." "(thememusicplaying) carson: tonight we have evelknievel." "he's probably the only man in history who's become really wealthy by trying to kill himself." "it's true." "he is somewhat of a legend." "hedoesincrediblestunts withmotorcycles, andhehasbroken, iguess,morebones thananybodyin history, andyethe keepsatthis ." "so let us meet the gentlemen." "here is evel knievel." "(livelymusicplays, applause)  johnny knoxville:" "igrewup in the'70s." "andevelknievel wasthe'70s." "he captured my imagination like no one else." "some of you may have seen this film before." "this is a jump that you made at caesars palace." "whathappened?" "knievel: the motorcycle landedshort, rippedthehandlebars outofmy hands, andi bouncedfor60yards intothedunesparkinglot." "carson: god." "you'reanincredibleman ." "knoxville: i didn't think of him asa daredevil." "ithoughtof him asa superhero." "no one ever went for it like that before." "he invented that." "since then, it has taken off in a major way." "that'ssuchalargepart  ofourculturenow ." "heinspiredallthat." "butthere'llneverbe anotherevel." "i know i've been called a lot of things by a lot of people," " a crazy man or a con man..." " carson: mm-hmm." "...but when you head down that long white line, you better have had made your peace with god, and you better know what you're doing because a con man ain't gonna get there." "i didn't know the story of the man." "and it was, you know, pretty complex." "california judge has ordered motorcycle stuntman evel knievel to serve out the rest of a jail sentence behind bars." "i'm a grown-ass man, and some of the stuff is tough to reconcile." "it's a crazy story." "it's just fast, faster, and disaster." "(t.rex's"20thcenturyboy" plays)" "♪friendssayit'sfine , friendssayit 'sgood♪" "♪everybodysays it'sjustlikerockn'roll♪" "♪i movelikeacat,  chargelikearam ♪" "♪stinglikeabee♪" "♪babe, iwannabe yourman ♪" "♪hey♪" "♪well,it 'splaintosee youweremeantfor me♪" "♪yeah,i'myourboy,  the20thcenturytoy ♪" "♪yeah♪" "♪20thcenturytoy ♪" "♪i wannabe  yourboy♪" "♪20thcenturytoy ♪" "♪i wannabe yourboy ♪" "(musicfades)" "i was a member of the sportscasters association of los angeles, and we used to have monthly meetings on a thursday at a place called red tractors." "anybody who was anybody came-- tommylasorda." "billyjeankingwas there." "mohamedali whenhewascassiusclay , first made his appearance here." "they were legitimate athletes in their chosen professions." "saltman: all of a sudden, therewasthisthiscommotion onventuraboulevard." "therewasthisnutcase going up and down doing wheelies." "i didn't even know what a wheelie was until they explained it to me." "people didn't do wheelies up and down the road." "i mean, that was crazy, on a rear wheel on a motorcycle going 80 miles per hour?" "( imitates motorcycle engine ) everybody stopped and would go, "oh, look at that."" "kelly: even the hard-bitten sportsannouncers ofthatdayand age  weretakenabackbythis guy,  whoofcourse turnedoutto be evelknievel." "if you told me that he was gonna be world famous, i would say you're nuts." "if you're going to try to understand evel, you gotta go back to his childhood." "his parents split up and left town, and he was basically raised by his grandparents." "bob rowling: grandma and grandpa didthebesttheycoulddo, and he was just rambunctious, i guess." "maybe he didn't have that attention as a young boy when he needed it." "( chuckles ) truth is, i think, that bobby was kind of angry with his father because he didn't get to stay with him." "that's what i think." "hewantedto be  withhisfather." "pat williams: we were up atmygrandma'shouse, andheandi werewrestlingaround, andi punchedhim inthemouth." "and he lit on the back of his head." "and i said, "bobby?" and nothing." "i thought, oh, my god, i killed him." "and instantly, he had these wild eyes 'cause he knew what had happened." "and across the kitchen, there was a door that was slightly open, the pantry door, and he ran at that door and slammed it shut with his head." "and that half-stunned him again." "and he turned around sitting down, and he pointed at me, and he said, "did you see that?" "nobody can hurt me." "you can't hurt me." "nobody can hurt me."" "jim blankenship: i think growingupin butte,montana, without a father would-- would be hard to handle, i would think." "knoxville:" "butte,montana, wasjustatough-ass miningtown." "when the mines were going full, the bars were open 24 hours." "therewasalot  ofprostitution." "man: there was about 3,000whoresat thattime." "man: it was just miners drinking'andfightin'." "williams: you had to learn tocopein butte." "sometimescopingmeant withyourfists." "you fought." "you stood up like a man." "you fought, and you were taught that." "and that's part of the butte credo is you just don't back down." "knievelwasafighter fromtheget-go, evenduringgradeschool." "he'd get a little obnoxious at times." "you know, you'd have to settle him down." "well, you couldn't dare him." "if you'd dare him, he'd do it." "i remember when bob got his first motorcycle." "i don't know why he had two tires." "he always rode around on the back one." "you never knew what he was gonna do with that motorcycle in town." "i mean, he'd be riding it all over raising-- raising hell with everybody." "pat burns: he liked to have thecopschasehim ." "you just couldn't catch him on a bike when you were in a patrol car." "( rock 'n' roll music playing )" "linda bork knievel:" "onedayigorunup tothestore, and who's up there, but big bad knievel, you know?" "he was a character." "( laughs ) iwasscared, buti waskindofflattered, youknow?" "gee, he's paying attention to me, andthenoneday hejust said ," ""you're gonna marry me."" "( laughs ) the story is that he kidnapped her." "rowling: well, i don't know ifhekidnappedher ornot." "you know, that might have been-- that might have been something that they were planning together anyhow, who knows?" "yeah, i guess i was kidnapped." "i think i was just walking home from school that day when he said, "get in the car," you know?" "( laughs ) i don't know, i was just-- something just almost like overtook me, and he drove me down to dillon and, uh, danged if we didn't get married there." "he had some weird ideas about how life should be lived." "and he-- he thought that he should be at the top of the heap, you know?" "i figure that's why he did the stuff he did to make money." "he'drun'em, there'll be a shady side to it." "hewashappier iftherewassomething alittleshadyaboutit." "linda knievel:" "hemadeup hisown job ." "actually, he started working as a security officer at night." "he had a route where he used to go around at 2:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the morning and check all the different establishments." "you'd pay him to be sure the doors were locked and everything, and if you didn't pay him, you might be robbed within a month or so." "he broke into my place." "he might have got 40 or $50, something like that, but not that-- nothing big." "yeah, he was-- he ran a racket." "no question about it." "the police called me up and told me thattherewasaknown safecrackerintown." "nowi knewtheyweretalking aboutevel." "he was a crook." "a con-man, i guess you'd call him." "knoxville:" "attheageof19, he starts a semi-pro hockey team and convinces theczechoslovakian nationalteam tocometo butte toplaythem." "(laughs) andtheczechskill'em." "like, smoke 'em 22 to 3." "buti don'tthinkevel was that upset about the score." "pavlovich:" "ithinkhe left inthemiddle ofthesecondperiod, and the money disappeared." "there was no more money to pay 'em." "so, you know, draw your own conclusions." "where did the money go?" "( laughs ) williams: well, buttelikespeople whobounceup against theedgesof theenvelope." "they're forgiving about some criminal activity, but they don't particularly like criminals." "tonning:" "hehadthreekidsatthetime." "he threw all of his burglar bags in the river and decided to go straight." "so knievel gets this job selling insurance forcombined insurancecompany, anditwasrun bythis guy,  w.clementstone, whowroteabookcalled" ""successthroughapositive mentalattitude."" "i feel healthy." "i feel happy. i feel terrific." "jay tamburina:" "ithinkit reallychanged histhinkingdrastically." "i mean, he was that way to begin with, and it just intensified it." "he was a legendary salesman." "when he was selling insurance, he was selling insurance, and he was selling a lot of it." "tamburina: i remember he went tothementalhospital in--in-- ibelieveit wasdeerlodge." "andhewrote271 policies in this hospital, mental hospital." "thiswasasuperrecord, nobodyhadeverwritten thatmanypolicies ina weekever." "andhetalkedtothepresident ofthecompanyatthat time  and said, "i'll break every record in the company," ""every single one that exists, and you make me a vice president after i do that."" "and mr. stawn says, "sorry, that isn't gonna happen."" "well, knievel didn't like that." "knoxville:" "sohepicksuphisfamily andmoves tomoseslake,washington, wherehegetsajob sellinghondamotorcycles." "gunn: he was making agoodlivingatit, butitwasn't goodenoughforhim ." "he says, "i think i need to do something weird," ""some kind of a stunt so it'll get people to come down here and see the motorcycles."" "so he had this crazy idea about doing this jump." "he says, "i'm gonna jump over cougars and rattlesnakes"" "i said, "you gotta be kidding me."" "gunn: my part in thatmountainlionjump wasi woreawhitecoat  likea doctor, and evel introduced me as the veterinarian, which was a crock of bull, but... so he brings 'em down and put the cougars underneath." "and they're scared to death." "they won't come out." "they were like kitty cats." "but the snakes, holy -- !" "weputthem ina bigrefrigeratorcarton, andtheywerepissedoff." "sohegoesaroundthetrack , andthenhe goesuptheramp." "and,well,theminute hewentup in theair  icouldsee hewasn'tgonnamakeit." "by god, he was about three feet short." "his back tire hits the refrigerator carton." "and the snakes go flipping into the crowd." "talkaboutpeoplerunning andgettingoutofthere." "!" "(laughs) the poor guy from vantage wants us to help catch his snakes!" "( laughs ) i said, "you gotta be kidding me!"" "and he just rode back on his motorcycle, went up the jump, and waved at the crowd." "he didn't-- he didn't care about the snakes." "people started talking to him, you know, "what-- you know, what can you do next?"" "and he started thinking about that kind of stuff." "that's when he come up with the idea of starting a stunt show." "i told him, i said, "they're gonna eat you up, boy." "you'll never make it."" "tim perior:" "iwasabartender atmarty'sbar inorange,california, andthisfellacomesin, sitsattheend ofthebar, andwestarttalking." "well, he's a motorcycle daredevil, and he had jumped rattlesnakes, and he wants to do a big ramp-to-ramp jump." "he said, "people will go wild,"" "and he just convinced me." "somehowi wasable togettwopickups, atractor, and40-foottrailer." "thelogoon theside was" evelknievel andhismotorcycle daredevils."" "well,thenameevelcame  fromhiswildyearsinbutte ." "he was given that name by the cops." "he was in jail with a guy named "knawful."" "and they said, "well, better lock up the doors pretty good tonight." "we got an awful knawful and evil knievel in here."" "blackenship: he heard that, andhelikedthat." "perior:" "hechangedit to e-v-e-l because he didn't want to sound too evil." "what he did is get a bunch of people working with him." "good guys like sweet savage and eddie mulder andkleshfargo." "gunn:" "sohestartedthinkingup differentstuntsto do ." "perior:" "theflamingboards, we'd soak 'em in gasoline and light it on fire." "leeuwen: and he'd hit that firstboardandjustgoboom!" "and the sparks, the stuff would fly in the air!" "andthen,boom!" "hitthesecondone !" "sparkswouldfly!" "and,boom,hitthe thirdone!" "hitthefourthone , andthefifthone ... somehow, bob got this midget called butch willhelm, andtalkedhim intojoiningtheshow." "bob said, "he will do everything i do in miniature."" "andhewouldcrash oneverysingleone ." "so then it looked like when bob was going to make his jump, something terrible is going to happen." "he was such a crazy son of a bitch." "he'ddothesestunts, andhenevertried'embefore." "one time he had a motorcycle run at him about 60 miles an hour, and he jumped up, buthedidn'tjump highenough." "perior: and the motorcycle hithimandflippedhimover." "he was sprained from his waist to his ankles." "man: i think at that pointiswhenhedecided hewasjustgonnastick tojumpingthemotorcycles." "robbie knievel:" "the equipment my dad jumped on, compared to what's going on today-- unbelievable." "leeuwen:" "thethingweighed500 pounds." "it'd be like jumping a dump truck over all those cars, but he'd do it anyway." "i was the speedometer for evel." "i had stand there and watch him and say you're going fast enough or you're not going fast enough." "i guess you'd call it guesswork." "perior: bob jumped further andfurtherwitheachshow ." "the only thing is those stands were not full." "not by any means." "howdoyouconvincepeople tocometo asport theyhadneverheardof?" "wewere$52,000indebt ." "bob kept spending money we didn't have." "and that's when i decided i had to leave." "well,ofcourse,thenhesaw thathedidn'tneedtheteam." "hewenton hisown ." "nowitwouldjustbehim lookingforhisbig break." " ( dramatic music plays ) - announcer:" "spanningtheglobe... spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport." "few years, i was singing it in my sleep." "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." "announcer:" "andtheagonyofdefeat." "knoxville: the thrill of victory andtheagonyofdefeat, and they always showed that skier, where you never knew-- the word was he died." "tony hawk: the crash, like, that'swhatyouremember from" wideworldof sports."" "announcer: the human drama ofathleticcompetition." "i remember, like, the crazy stuff that they would show once and a while." "skateboarding was on "wide world of sports." i remember that." "announcer:" "abc's "wide world of sports..."" "we were in the business of sports theater." "sportswasdrama." "sportswasastory." "announcer:" "thetrillof victory." "i loved it." "like i covered some of the weirdest things myself." "as long brought in an audience." "america loved it." "announcer: the human drama ofathleticcompetition." "leeuwen: everybody'd rushhomefromchurch andwatchabc "wide world of sports" at 1:00, and that was the biggest show on tv." "announcer: this is abc's" wideworldof sports."" "knoxville: evel knows thatthemotorcyclerace atascotspeedwayisfeatured on" wideworldof sports."" "so he fast-talks the owner into letting him do his thing." "before we get back to racing, i'd like to introduce to you a most unusual young man." "this is evel knievel, and his specialty in sports is to take a motorcycle up over a ramp andleapthroughthe air  some90feet." "that'swhathe 'sgonnatry to dotodayover15automobiles." " you're trying 15 today?" " well, the parachute's ready." "motorcycle's ready and i'm ready." "and i'm not gonna miss today." "reporter:" "andhe'ssettogo." "he'llbuildup speed asquicklyas he can." "andherehe goes!" "hemakesit !" "abeautifulleap asevelknievel getstheroarapproval fromthecrowd." "leeuwen: here here we are at" wideworldof sports."" "biggest race of the year." "biggest dirt track race of the year." "and i won it." "i won the race." "and you think anybody'd remember it?" "no." "they know knievel." "they remember knievel out of that whole deal, not me." "and i won 100 laps." "road my ass off." "so e so evel got his foot in the door, and now he's going to knock it down." "if you was to think of the most outrageous thing you could do, what would it be?" "it'dbejumpthosefountains atcaesar'spalace." "robbie: i don't know where it came from, how a guy would go down caesar's palace strip, lookatthefountains-- whatwashe thinking?" "wheredidthatcomefrom ?" "knoxville: so evel wants todothisstuntinvegas , butnooneknows whothehellheis." "so he switches into hustler mode." "kelly: this guy called everynewsoutlet, toldthemthatevelknievel, famedstuntmotorcyclist, wasgoingto jump caesar'spalace comesaturdaymorning, bethere." "knoxville: so then he calls jaysarno." "theguywhorunscaesars, andeachtimehewouldcall asa differentperson, and each time, he would mispronounce his own name." "evel knievel: i told him mynamewaslarson." "iwaswithsportsillustrated." "isaid,"youeverheard of' evelneevel'?"" "hesaid,"whothe hell'sthis  'evelneevel'?"" "soi waitedtwomoredays  andi calledhimbackup, andi said, "thisisdennislewinfrom  'wideworldof sports,' doyouknowevelknievel?" hesays,"' avelnavel." "evelneevel.evelknievel.' whoisthiscrazyguy? "" "hesaid, "everybody'scallingme up  abouthim." "hesaid,ithink wegotadealwith him." "idon'tknow.callback ."" "(laughter) knoxville:" "likea lotof hisstunts, caesar'spalace wasoneof those thathedreamedupandsold beforeheevenknew itwaspossible." "andthenon theday , he'sgotthecrowdsthere, andhedoesn'tknow ifhecanmakeit." "he'sjustgottogoforit ." "robin knievel-dick:" "italkedwithhim for awhile beforehejumped, and he was very unsettled about the jump." "youcouldtellhewasnervous." "hewasmakingruns attherampand , youknow, wecouldhearthe motorcycle." "andwecouldhearthecrowd , and then the doorman-- the doorman got on the phone and told us what went on." "(womanscreams)" "tonning: my god." "thatwashorrible." "ithoughthe wasgonna-- ithoughthe wasdead." "i was horrified to watch my friend look like a rag doll." "linda knievel: i don't think hewasunconscious." "buthewashurting." "sooffto thehospital wewent." "knoxville:" "hehadabrokenwrist, twobrokenankles, crushedhispelvis." "andthensomehow, wordgetsout thathe'sin acoma andmightnotmakeit." "he told that story, but he wasn't in a coma." "in fact, i flew down there, and it hadn't been but like two days since he'd had the wreck, and he was awake when i walked in the hospital room." "( laughs ) he had the press come in there and play it up." ""oh, i'm about to die." "don't know if i'll make it."" "well, this was knievel." "that's what he did." "he played it up right to the end." "knoxville:" "prettysoon,thecrashfootage waseverywhere." "geraldo rivera: we saw him jump caesar'spalace." "we saw that fall and his body flopping and his head hitting, and, you know, all of the agony of that and the broken bones." "that piece of film was amazing, to see him go over and over and then roll all the way up to the wall and it-- that's one of the great pieces of footage of all time." "boy, he was national news all over the place." "(cheersandapplause) gunn:" "hebecameinstantlyfamous." "this guy somehow had captured what america needed." "he came along at the right time." "therewasacertaincynicism throughoutthecountry." "societywaschanging." "man: you had corruption ingovernment." "well, i'm not a crook." "♪whenilookout mywindow...♪ man: the country had been batteredbymanyyearsofwar." "hamilton: america was coming apartattheseams." "♪mustbe theseason ofthewitch♪" "♪mustbe theseason ofthewitch.♪ williams: we were a little downonourselves, andalongcomesthiskid frombutte,montana, whoshowedus whowewere  andwantedto be again." "♪hewearsred , white,andblue♪" "♪starsandstripes,too...♪ earle castine:" "iguesswe werelooking forsomesortofa hero ." "we had superman and batman and-- but this guy was the real thing." "♪evelknievel's forgodandcountry,too...♪ sullivan: most motorcycle peopleworeblack." "thatwaswhat evelwantedto change, andthat'swhere thered,white,and blue leatherscamefrom." "he wore red, white, and blue because he was patriotic." "he loved his country, buthealsosaw  thatthatwould givehimaboost tohisimage, andpeople wererespectinghimmore." "wilson: and he came out ofthosemountains inhisstar-spangledsuit, withhiscane,and hesaid ," ""iamgonnafacedeath."" "he opened the door and invited people to buy a ticket to watch truth." "rivera: for that disenchanted, disillusionedgeneration, where you didn't trust anybody, because even the president lied, here's a guy, he's gonna risk everything." "man:" "hedidit !" "he didit!" "knoxville:" "youknow,therewas three tvstationsbackthen, andwhenevelwas onabc,  everyoneknewit ." "that'swhatyoudid  thatnightis watch, andthat's whatyoutalkedabout forthenext fewweeksafterwards." "wilson:" "hewasso popularthatoutof the top-ten-rated "wide world of sports" shows in the 37 years of the show, he holds seven of them." "announcer:" "motorcycledaredevil evelknievel!" "hoffman:" "hewasthetalkoftheworld." "he was the greatest reality show before reality shows existed." "are you ever scared before a stunt?" " do you have fear?" " i am not scared." "when i go off that jump, i will say i have some concern, but i don't think i've ever been afraid of anything." "if i know something's going to happen, i try and train myself to where i have complete control over my mind and my body." "i relax when i hit instead of freezing up and being scared." "williams:" "hesaidto me onetime," ""you know what i was really good at... was the take off." "you know what i was bad at was the landing."" "but he said, "it was the bad landings, that's what brought the crowds out."" "youknow,bobbyusedtosay, "nobodywantsto seemedie,  buttheydon't wanttomissitifido."" "announcer:" "andjustto go up thatramp and take a look at the distance thathe'sgotto, ineffect, hurdleaboard hisharleydavidsonmachine." "gifford: he knew ifhewasn'tjustperfect whenheleftthatramp , something awful was going to happen between the time he left there and came down way over here." "if he told ya he was gonna do something, he would do it, i mean, even if he knew it was gonna kill him." "linda: you know, youwerealways-- thequestionof whetherornot hemightnotmakeitalive ." "i would think my dad would die every time he jumped." "it was stressful." "it was hard on us." "pavlovich: if he crashed, youknow,andgot hurt, then he'd go out, he's gonna do it again." "and everybody says he's nuts." "he got hurt the last time." "evel knievel: doctors, especiallysurgeons, have been amazed at how i can keep going." "he had..." "recuperative powers that were beyond normal people." "knievel-dick:" "theywouldsay," ""you'llhavethiscast foreightweeks,"" "andhewouldtakeitoff inthree." "man: this may look like justsomeabstractplumbing, butthisis actually therighthip andrightfemur ofevelknievel." "evel knievel: i think i've probably become immune to pain." "i've learned to live with pain for so long that i think, uh, what would hurt an average person doesn't hurt me so much." "kelly knievel:" "whenweweregrowingup andmydadbrokebones, andhewasinpain , heneverbitchedaboutit." "henevercomplainedaboutit." "no, no, i'll be all right." "i'm gonna jump some more." "itwasjustheacceptedthat that's what he had chosen to do and it's something he just had to deal with, and that's the way he dealt with it." "to be something a little extra special, no matter what i want to do if i like to do it." "to be a champion or to be the best." "even though i've been hurt so many times, and live like a lot of people do that live in a... a gray twilight world-- these kind of people, they don't even know victory or defeat because they've never tried anything," "and this is something that i feel compelled to do, and i am going to do it." "i had sortofbeenbroughtalong thewayof ateenidol ." "mm-mmm." "ihadenough starpowergoing, buti kepttrying totoughenup my act." "i thought, god, if i could get a really good western or i get good action movie... and i was looking for sort of a modern day western character." "who would that be?" "irememberseeingthe footage fromcaesar'spalace, and i thought, yeah, that's the movie." "inmymindtherewasonlyone guythatcoulddothis right." "johnmillus, he'dwritten"dirtyharry,"" ""jeremiahjohnson,"" "andofcourselater "apocalypsenow."" "milius just wrote it as though he was writing it for patton." "it had this sort of mythic sound to it, you know?" "and it's got this man who thinks he's a gladiator." "and i was excited to show evel this." "sohetellsme tocomemeethim inhollywood atthesaharanhotel thatwasup on sunset." "he's been up all night." "got another huge wound." "kotex pads all there." "and he's lying there like a posh in a bad motel." "and that's when it all got crazy." "he took a bottle of the wild turkey, and i heard the snap of the turkey, and he drank half that thing down and he'd sit down." "i said, "well, i wanna tell you that we've got a great script, and i just brought it to you, and i want you to read it."" "he said, "you read it," and i said," ""well, i have read it, and i really love it." "i think it's great."" "he said, "no, i want you to read it to me."" "and i just i didn't want to read the script." "i mean, it was just crazy, the idea of me reading the script to him." "but he was dead serious, and i saw this gun." "and he put it right to my head." "and i thought, he means this." "you know, this is really real stuff." "my performance on reading that script was the best i've ever given, and i probably should have gotten an academy award." "ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to be here today." "it is truly an honor to risk my life before you." "an honor." "before i jump my motorcycle over these 19 cars-- and i want you to note, there's not a volkswagen or a datsun in the row." "(motorrevving) ron wichman:" "evelwasnothappywith it, idon'tbelieve, from what i understand talking to him." "i don't believe he was at all happy with george hamilton in that." "hamilton: i don't think evel appreciatedme climbingintohisleathers andgettingon hismotorcycle, but what happened is, by osmosis, when he went to see it in the theater, whenhecameout , hewassayingthesethings," "andtheywere extraordinarywords coming out of his mouth that john had written for him." "they told the wright brothers to fly was impossible, and they probably told neil armstrong the walk on the moon was impossible." "they said that shepard and glenn would never get around the world, and they said that armstrong wouldn't step on the moon." "you know, he was using a writer's words." "and this is the evel he's become." "i'm all alone when i jump those ramps." "there's only two things that keep the rest of 'em from doing it, and that's fear and the big hole in the middle, and as long as i can stand alone and be the best atwhatiamdoing, i'mgonnacontinuetodoit ." "wilson: he created a character namedevelknievel, andthentried tolivethepart." "he never broke character." "he had the evel knievel persona, andthat'swhathepresented totheworld." "we don't want guys in gray hats." "we want black and white." "evel represented that." "hedefinitely thoughtofhimself astheguyinthewhite hat, thegoodguy." "if i look like i'm rigging up for a trip into outer space, you're right." "nobody should ever ride a motorcycle without a helmet." "i never do." "he was somebody who was seeking what many of us do in our own way, and that's recognition, andifyouget  intohisbackground, youcanunderstandthat." "hewantedidentity." "heneededthat." "he just wanted to be loved." "(peterframpton's "showmetheway "plays)" "♪i wonder howyou'refeeling♪" "♪there'sringing inmyears...♪ thank you very much." "believe me, it's a pleasure to be back here in portland, oregon, and on behalf of my sponsors, the mack truck company, the harley davidson motor company, and the bucyrus-erie train and steam shovel company in milwaukee... kelly knievel:" "mydad,he invented thelicensingbusiness." "i mean, how many people can you think of that had their names on products before evel kn-- i mean, there was a few, but he really elevated the art of the licensing business." "knoxville: yeah, he had a deal witheveryone-- macktruck, harleydavidson, but that's not the one i remember." "announcer: this is evel knievel andhisstuntcycle." "he'stheonlyrider todoso manystunts, mid-airsummersaults... evel knievel has become a legend in his own lifetime." "zeke rose: when 'ideal' came out withtheevelknieveltoy,  thepresidentof 'ideal' calledmeasideand said," ""this is gonna be a really big item for us."" "boy:" "it'sanevelknievelrally!" "for me, there was only one action figure when i was growing up, and that was evel knievel." "itwasas coolasyoucould  possiblygetat thetime." "it came with a motorcycle you could wind up." "when you wind it up and you stop and it takes off-- you just wind it up, and if you're building the suspense, you don't know what's gonna happen, but you know it's gonna blow up, and it's not gonna be pretty," "but you're lucky that this toy's evel knievel," " 'cause he can take it." " that's awesome." "wow. go evel!" "announcer: the evel knievel stuntcyclecomeswithfigure, winder,gtwheeliestand, andfrontflipbar ." "newfromideal." "rose:" "thetoysoldout ." "pavlovich: i would say he made moremoneyoffofidealtoy thenhedid onanyof hisjumps." "i was with him one time, he showed me two royalty checks, and both of them at that time were half a million dollars each." "both of 'em." "two checks." "i told him, "well, you made it." "you're on the pinnacle." ""you said you were gonna be a millionaire." "you are a millionaire."" "wilson:" "itwasan amazingtime." "themoneywasrollingin bythemillions." "kelly knievel: everywhere hewent,he wentfirst-class." "yeah, my dad liked to spend money." "robbie knievel: all of a sudden, there'sfiveferraris, twolearjets, fiveotherairplanes." "linda knievel: he'd get a boat, oh,heneededabiggerboat oh,howaboutayacht?" "howaboutanotheryacht?" "tracey mccloud:" "withhelicopterson top." "leeuwen: he's got "evel eye i" paintedonthesideofit ." "reporter:" "he'snoeasyrider." "he'sproudof thematerial thingshismoneycan buy-- hiscadillac's,his$140,000 luxury-appointedvan." "wilson: he took me intohisoffice, openedupahugesafe hehad, and there was a gold-platted, full-sized motorcycle." "but you know what?" "you could hardly see it because it was covered in cash, likeithadbeenthrown intherelikeconfetti." "tonning: he built abig,beautifulhome onthe18thgreen with this huge iron gate with a great big "e.k."" "rightinthemiddleofit  wastheactualhandle." "you know, for butte, montana, that was-- that was the stuff." "if i'm risking my life for it." "i'm gonna spend every damn dime of it!" "kelly knievel: yeah, my dad hadanaffinityfor clothes." "helikedto dresswithflair." "he'd walk into a store and see a sweater he liked, and he'd just buy one in 20 colors." "come on with me and i'll take you on a little tour of my office and dressing room and show you what you can buy with a few dollars if you're willing to jump a motorcycle over 19 cars." "man:" "evelwasveryflashy." "walkedwithacane withdiamondsin hiscane, andhisjewelryhad diamonds, andhehadgoldallover." "robbie knievel:" "healwayslovedelvis." "andtheytraded thebeltbuckleand the cape." "mydadwasabigfanof  liberaceforbeingashowman." "evel knievel:" "allthemoneyintheworld  can't buy your way into heaven." "itcan'tbuy yourwayoutofhell ." "it was made to be spent right here, and i'm gonna have the best clothes, best boots, best diamonds, best cars, trucks, motorcycles, booze, and women on the face of this earth" "just as long as i can keep going." "gene sullivan: when he came into moneyandfameand fortune, it's like the women became almost an equal part of his... thrust from day to day." "part of it was that women were extraordinarily attracted to him." "iknowbecauseheandi 'dgo outdrinkingonceina while, and,hell,they'dlineup." "andhe'dpick theprettiestone." "he's unbelievable." "he's got more fire in him." "he's unbelievable." "leeuwen:" "he'dturnthehat trick halfthetime, because i'd see him do three a night for a about week when i was there." "hang on." "bobbie knievel: come on, imean,backinthe' 70s , every woman wanted somebody like that." "i was always mad 'cause he was maybe cheating on my mom." "♪i 'mtheotherwoman...♪ linda was aces-- aces." "i mean, she was the nicest woman that he could have ever married." "tamburina:" "youknow,shestoodbyhim, anda lotof times, hedidn'ttreather right." "hi, good-lookin'." "you going swimming again?" "linda bork knievel:" "hedidn'thideanything, and that's probably where i'd get a little upset with him." "he'd come home with a little lipstick on his collar, and i'd get a little ticked off." "i'd like to take you out to dinner somewhere in a real nice quiet little spot, get you swacked and take you home someplace." "i'd think, i married this guy." "idon'tknow, ijust-- youdon'tleavethatman unlesshewantsyou to." "let's say i i died and landed in heaven." "bang, i'm there, okay?" "here i'm sitting there in a white robe on a hard marble slab next to jfk, martin luther king, and some pope." "now, what the hell would evel knievel have to say to any of those three guys?" "i couldn't carry on an intelligent conversation with 'em." "i want to go to my own kind of heaven." "uh... it's got draft beer that doesn't make you fat." "it's got a lot of beautiful girls like you running around, and my wife won't get mad if i go out with any of them." "he was okay before he became evel knievel, and then, you know, it's-- people just can't handle that fame, some of 'em." "he's was small-town guy from a small town in-- really-- in the span of seven years, became one of the most famous people in the world." "i think that he-- he forgot how to be bob." "andwhenhe becameevel, it'sliketheworld tookhimawayfromus." "if you wanna be in this business and you wanna be the best in the world and you wanna wear a red, white, and blue number one on your back, you have to be man enough to handle the consequences." "announcer:" "kingofthedaredevil, numberone,evelknievel!" "knoxville: evel was on top oftheworld, buthewasstartingtolose hisgripalittle, andthatthingwith thehell'sangelsdidn'thelp ." "sullivan: evel was at odds againstthehell'sangels and the biker image." "he used to talk about the hell's angels a lot, always putting 'em down." "evel knievel: they're murderers, thieves,ordrugdealers, imean, theseguysaredogs." "theybelongin penitentiaries." "gunn:" "mustofgotthroughto'em." "youknow, theygotpissedoff ." "andsanfrancisco wasoneof theirmainareas." "sullivan: the announcer wastheguy thatstartedthewholething." "whenheintroducedknievel, hesays," ""if knievel makes this jump tonight, he's gonna set the hell's angels back 100 years."" "wrong thing to say." "hebarelymadethatjump , camebackaround, and i notice a couple of hell's angels had come out onto the floor." "and this hell's angel grabbed him." "well, i'm-- i'm hoofing it." "the hell's angel threw him down justwhenigot there, andi givethisguy  abodycheck." "and he folded like-- just went out." "well, then the war started, you know?" "hell'sangelscome bowlinginoverthere andthepeoplecomeout ofthestands andstartedbeatingon' em ." "theyputtwoofthose hell'sangelsin thehospital." "sullivan:" "afterthecowpalaceincident, evel got a little bit paranoid." "hesaid,"doyou haveagun ? "" "isaid,"yeah, igotacoupleof'em."" "well,hesays,"thosehell 's angel's,youneverknow, they'regonnawalkinhere  witha shotgun,"andhesays ," ""igottabe readyfor 'em ."" "knoxville: the man had crashed numeroustimes, of course it's gonna add up mentally and emotionally in your head." "it has to." "announcer:" "watchthatrightshoulder." "broken,rightthere, therightcollarbone." "woman:" "areyoueverafraid?" "if i am, i'm not gonna tell you about it." " woman: why?" " i've been concerned." "i'm evel knievel, honey." "i'm not supposed to be afraid." "sullivan: he was constantly beingtormented withthethoughtof,  you know, you're not gonna make this one." "you're gonna die at this one." "and so he's doing everything he can through alcohol, through being flamboyant, through, being, you know, crude or whatever to get these thoughts out of his head, but they were eating his lunch." "you know, evel, you're shaking a little bit." "well, if you did what i did, you'd be shaking, too." "i could see it in his eyes sometimes when he'd come back by to ask me if he was going fast enough, i could see the fear in his eyes." "iknewhe wasscared, buthewouldnever-- hewouldneversay no." "youknow, he'dgoaheadand doit." "the medicine that he was taking, the drugs he was taking for his pain-- plus he was drinking-- hebecamejustschitzo... imean,paranoid." "gunn: he got paranoid aboutprotectinghisstuff, paranoidabout whoheletinand... williams: we'd be talking, andalmostas if  hewasschizophrenic, he'dflip andbecomeuglyaboutthings." "i had to stand two guys down who wanted a piece of him, and they wanted a piece of him because he was being an -- ." "he was being a jerk." "i'm the guy who just, you know, is trying to keep the peace." "i'm the guy protecting the troublemaker from the good guys." "you know, and i thought, i can't do this." "hamilton: it's really interestingwhenyou-- youareaman  likeevelknievel, andyou'vecreatedthismyth , andonceyou'redefined, it's hard to live up to it." "he was always reselling what he had already sold." "how do you get any better than that?" "how do you get any bigger?" "williams:" "throughouthislife, hewasinsatiable." "evenwhenhe was themostfamousdaredevil thateverlived, hewasn'tsatisfied." "hehadto makeanotherhalf  amilliondollarsona jump ." "he had to find one more woman prettier than the last." "hecouldn'tsatisfyhimself." "hehadto do somethingelse." "he had a friend that, uh-- they were at the bar talking, and this fella just made a comment," ""what's your next thing?"" "i think he said, "the grand canyon?"" "well, of course that started wheels a-turnin'." "kelly knievel: one of the favorite pictures of my dad isheis on therim  ofthegrandcanyon andthere'sthese twonavajochiefsthere." "andmydad'spointing at the other side of the grand canyon, and they're just looking at him like this man is crazy." "evel knievel: my dream wastojumpthe grandcanyon." "the secretary of interior told me that i could." "i took his word for it." "then he changed his mind." "so i told him to go get hosed, and i bought my own canyon, thesnakerivercanyon inthestateofidaho." "and the only way they'll get me out of the air is to shoot me out with an anti-aircraft gun, because i am gonna go, believe me." "thejumpacrossthe canyon willbeapproximatelyamile ." "it'ssomewherebetween1,000 and1500feettothebottom." "as you can see, pete, this motorcycle is unlike any motorcycle you've ever seen in the world." "these rockets put out about 90 pounds of thrust apiece." "knievel's original concept was take a motorcycle, put a rocket on it-- andthat'simpossible." "and so the necessity just required that he make a rocket vehicle." "ourpartnerwasbob treaux, andhewasknownas thefatherof steamrocketry." "andthatwasour answer forgettingevelknievel overthecanyon-- basically building a hot-water tank and uncorking it and let it go." "this machine is powered by steam." "steam is the most reliable source of power we have in the world." "and it'll go from zero to 350 miles an hour from a dead stop in eight seconds flat." "reporter:" "thesuperstunt, billedasthedeath-defying eventofthecentury willbeviewed byalmosttwomillionpeople, mostofthemwatchingon closed-circuitmoviescreens." "i'd like to say to you what evel knievel says wherever he goes, whatever he signs-- if he were talking to you right now, he'd say," ""hey, jim, happy landings."" "whentherewasaneventofany  magnitudeduringthatperiod, i'd probably get the first call to do the promotion." "remember, thefirsttime isawevelknievel, heshowedup  onventuraboulevard doingwheelies onhismotorcycle." "that's when i first met him, but i really didn't know him till we did the snake river canyon jump wheni hadcontrolof thepublicityandpromotion." "fora briefmoment inourdull,mundanelife , here is a man who, vicariously, we can live through." "ithoughtwhathewasdoing  wasexciting." "soit'sneverhardtosell somethingyoubelievedin." "andi believedin it ." "wedida30-daytour , whichwasmy idea, todopressconferencesat, like,literally90 airports." "how are you?" "reporter: when knievel fliesintotowneachday inhistwolearjets , hispilot,whachamacullum, andhisco-pilotwearcrimson crushed-velvetdinnerjackets." "you ought to see our socks and underwear." "every day was a party." "therewerecloseto2500  presscredentialsgivenout ." "itwasbiggerthan anyallfight, andi didthemall ." "bigger,biggerthan apresidentialentourage." "done.brankerwas incharge ofallthelogistics." "don e. branker:" "iwasaconcertpromoter." "i did acts like the stones, the doors, the who, andthenevelcomesalong witha pay-per-view closed-circuit-- you know, and this was the biggest event of its kind in the history of entertainment." "theunknownsweremagnificent." "this sunday a daredevil hustler named evel knievel willtryto cross acanyonin idaho ridinga rocket." "ifhemakesit, he'llbe manytimesamillionaire." "ifhedoesn't, he'llbedead." "( laughs ) rivera: he was a hero of mine inmanyways." "iwasalittlecrazy." "hewasawholelotcrazy ." "and you just had to dig his courage." "it just didn't seem to me that courage would be enough." "( chuckles ) i'm tellin' ya, that looks a lot further than i thought a mile would look." "itwasthekindofstunt  whereyouwouldactuallysee,  probably, a guy kill himself." "it was so audacious." "it was so daring." "it was so almost impossible in many ways but for his confidence." "what about the g-forces?" "i mean, when you start something that's gonna be going 350 miles an hour, aren't you gonna be knocked out almost?" "yes, i'll wake up, see the other side of the ground way over there, wherever the hell i'm at, and i'll pull a rip cord and open a parachute behind that sky cycle." "are you saying that you're gonna be unconscious when you're up in the air?" "to 2,000 feet, i probably will be, yes." "so that means you have to regain your consciousness." "that's right, but i can do that." "i'll do it." "doug malewicki:" "evelhadno training." "he had no training for pulling gs like a centrifuge or even in an airplane, zero parachute experience." "sprow: he had adeadstickkindofthing  whereitwasspring-loaded, andifhe passedout  and let go of the handle, the parachute would come out." "go!" "rivera: there were actually threeofthesteam-powered skycyclesbuilt." "theoriginal, calledthex1 , wastestedwithoutapilot aboutthreeweeksago ." "itendedup  atthebottomofthecanyon." "evel knievel:" "thatwasatestshot ." "wemadesomemistakes." "if i'd have been in it, i'd have ended up dead, but i don't think that's gonna happen." "campoy:" "whatthepressdid not know isthatthefirstone wasdesignedto fail." "wepurposefully underpoweredtherocket soitwouldn'tmakeit totheotherside." "he wanted it as a promotional thing." "he wanted it to crash in the water and let people see that." "campoy: eventually, wedidconvinceevel todoarealtest , buthe'donlydoit ifitwasdoneinsecret sothepress wouldn'tgetanypictures ofitor anything." "wethoughtit wouldmakeit." "buttherewasaproblem withtheparachute." "itdeployedearly... anditalsolandedright inthemiddleoftheriver ." "saltman:" "knievelwastheretoseethat." "i saw it, and i was wondering at that time what was going through his mind." "iwasthinkingtomyself thathewasreallylooking athismortality, andthinking, youknow, thismightnotbe sucha goodidea." "however,givehimcredit, hewasgoingthroughwith it." "branker: at this point, we'rebattingzerofor two , and the world is watching us." "i mean, i-- i felt that." "man:" "you'llmakeit !" "youwill!" "youwill!" "saltman: he became moreandmoresurly, screechingordersat everybody thathecould, belittling-- hebelittledlittlepeople." "hewasjustmean." "branker:" "abouta weekout iswhenwe started sensingthings notgoingourway  withthepress, 'causethepress isupherelivingnow,  anthepressstarted toseetherealevel ." "do one thing for me." "i do not ask for your respect, i demand it." "shelly gathered everybody around evel's trailer and says," ""why don't you just have him stand up so we can see him?"" "'cause there was a big crowd of people there." "and evel heard that and came out, and, uh..." " i said have a smile on your face." " i don't smile at anybody." "all right, get him out." "get him out. out." "go on, get out of here." "watt: that's when he came downthestairswithhiscane,  andhegrabbedmycamera, andhe'saprettystrongguy." "and grabbed my camera and started pushing me back and whacking me and the camera with his cane." "man: are you going to apologize tothatcameraman forroughinghimup?" "i wouldn't apologize, and if i see the little son of a bitch again, i'll throw him out of here, how's that?" "saltman:" "ashardas we tried, a lot of evel's true temperament came out to the press." "man: i think youshouldapologize." "well, i wanna straighten you out right now." "number one, i was in the sky cycle all day." "number two, you are a guest of mine in my press area." "do you understand that?" "and so was he." "number three, when i've been up there all day and all the blood's come out of my legs and my feet and gone to my head, and i come down to want to get some rest and get along with you people," "you don't tell me to come out and stand up and smile!" "if i want to come out and try and get along with you, you should at least allow me to sit down and smile!" "so tell him i said to kiss my ass!" "kazikas: there was a point wherewewereall  kindofsittingaround andsaying,"theguy 'sajerk ." "he's just a jerk." "he's a bully." "he's a bore." "what are we doing here?" "the rest of the press can now thank you because i am going to leave." "how's that, boys?" "sayonara." "man: people started coming in, anditstartedgettingcrazy." "everybiker intheunitedstates thatdidn'thaveajob wasthere." "branker: you have umpteen differentmotorcyclinggroups, noneofwhichyou 'dinvite toyourhousefor dinner." "they gonna have a good time." "everyone gets loose around here." "high: you could say itwaslikeawoodstock, buttheeviltwin ofwoodstock." "itwaslikenot ahappy flowerchildren sittingaroundin therain." "those guys were-- i mean, they were really rough." "tonning: wackos with tattoos allovertheirbodies drinking beer and screwing in public andallkindsof- - yeah,itwas--itwasbedlam." "( whistle blows ) roach clips!" "papers!" "hash pipes!" "come get them while they're hot!" "rundle: they had a marching band frombuttehighschool thatwasthere." "it was not a place for a butte high marching band to be that day, i'd have to say." "right when we pulled in, there was a man and woman naked, uh-- you know, having sex right there under a tree." "i saw all the people that were drinking and smoking pot, and they were pretty wild." "( band playing "the stars and stripes forever" )" "we fired up the band." "it's like the whole place arose." "oh, they-- the crowd went wild, yeah." "absolutely, they were totally prepared for a celebration." "lisac: the crowd juststartedmingling and just wanted to play our instruments." "they tugged and pulled, and next thing we know we're separated a good 100 yards away from the rest of the band." "so we were basically fighting for our lives, as far as i was concerned." "at that point, they just stuffed my tuba full of everything-- beer bottles, popcorn, peanuts, rocks." "i pulled a bra out of there." "i never played a note." "wealsohadwithus thedrillteam, andthedrillteam, their name was the purple bees, anda goodfriendofmine , theytoreherdressrightoff." "totally tore her dress off." "i guess we all thought of this as something different than what it was really gonna be." "john hood:" "thecrowdweregiven oh,beer, and when the beer was closed up, that's when it got kind of rowdy." "rundle: they actually rolled thebeertrucksover-- the semis, over on their side, shot the locks off, andeverybodywaswalking throughthecamps withcasesof beer." "nextthingyouknow, theytooktheouthouses, and they took 'em down, and they started just dumping them over, and they lit them on fire." "theplacewasabsolutely outofcontrolatthat point." "things got as bad as it could get bad without somebody dying." "that's as simple as that-- just as bad as it could be." "icouldhear outinthedarkness, i can hear the girls being raped." "i can hear fights going on." "you know, i can hear gunshots going off, you know, but there's nothing i could do." "and finally i reached the point wherei said," ""youknowwhat?" "i'm gonnacall  thenationalguardin. "" "so i called them up, and he says, "don, i'm sorry," ""but our men are split up," ""and i just can't come out there to help you." "you're on your own, son."" "and i hung up that phone, and i felt like crying." "reporter: there were more than33,000paidadmissions." "asyoucansee , theyneededcontrol." "theywereperilouslyclose totheedgeofthecanyon some600feetstraightdown ." "what i was concerned about is that there was this canyon." "there's this killer canyon in front of you, andtheyputup astandardcyclonefence." "i mean, just push it, and it'd fall over." "and i thought to myself, everybody's gonna rush to that edge of the canyon to see what happens." "and then you're gonna have people pushing from behind, and like the lemmings in the sea, they'regonnago  rightovertheedge." "campoy: you know, ithoughtit wasprettyironic howdone." "solvedthesecurityproblem." "hewentdowntowhere thehell'sangelswerecamped and hired them to come up and provide security for us there." "i went there and i explained to them what i'll do." ""here's what i'll do-- i got $1,000 in cash," ""and i want you to guard the fence and keep the people on that side of the fence."" "and the guy said, "are you bullshitting me?"" "i said, "am i gonna bullshit with you guys here?"" ""okay, you got a deal, mister."" "( laughs )" "saltman:" "onthemorningofthejump,  ilookedat him andi sawaverypensive, very reflective, very quiet man." "he didn't look comfortable." "idon'tknowwhy hewould lookcomfortable, climbingintoatin can  toflyoveracanyon." "reporter: there is bobtreauxhimself, thechiefengineer testingthewind." "sprow: the 15-mile-an-hour wind wasnottherightdirection." "we recommended to knievel he delay the launch." "pavlovich: i just said, "youknow,bob,idon'tthink  yououghtto do it ." ""ithinkthisiscrazy." "ithinkthisthing isn'tgonnamakeit. "" "he says, "i can't back out now." "too much has been said." "they'd call me a coward." he says he's not gonna do that." ""i'm going and that's it."" "i've got a team behind me with mr. treuax and all of those boys are 100%, and... i think we'll do it." "i wish the wind wasn't blowing so hard, but i think we'll do it." "saltman:" "therewasno braggadocio." "therewasno bravado." "as the time counted off, he'd said to his family, "let's pray."" "robbie knievel:" "yeah,i remembermy dad broughtmein thetrailer andthat... truck..." "( sniffles ) the whole family." "and he hugged me and says, "i love you."" "and he didn't know what was gonna happen." "he was like, "god, take care of me."" "linda and the children were crying, especially the little girl." "yeah,thatwasavery  soberingmoment." "you know, suddenly i realized... have i had a hand in getting a man killed?" "reporter:" "therehegoesuptheramp towardthelaunchsite andtowardsthevehicle." "andhe'sbeingintroduced tothecrowdnow ." "i've never been afraid in my life of dying." "i think that a man was put here on earth to live, not just to exist." "and today is the proudest day of my life." "i'm living a dream that they thought could never be done, but it'll be done." "saltman: and then instead ofa roar,asilence-- likeaneeriesilence felloverthecrowd because this guy truly might be going to his death." "branker:" "evelgotoutofthecrane  andintothesky cycle, andthewholetime, patrioticmusic isbeingplayed, andatthattime, even i got emotional a bit." "sprow:" "fecundoandistrappedhimin, andgotacoupleofpictures ofhimin thecockpit." "campoy: he looked alotdifferentthanhedid whenwestartedthisproject." "hishairwasgray, andhewasreallyserious." "saltman:" "wehadabig clock-- 10seconds, nineseconds." "branker: eight, seven-- youlookat theaudience, noone'sevenbreathing." "five...four... announcer:" "three,two,one." "saltman: immediately, somethingfailed." "itfizzled." "itwentdownlikeabullet." "reporter: the parachute is out." "themainchuteisout." "thereshegoes." "reporter:" "it'sgoingto crash." "justmissedtherocks!" "david,i can'tseeanything." "berg:" "ihadmy camera." "i'm taking-- click click click click." "( whooshes ) right into the canyon." "i turn around, and the first fence just goes flat." "just,shwoop." "man: it was a stampede, that'sexactlywhatitwas." "branker: i saw bikers pluck peopleoutof thesky ." "itwasrightout ofa movie, youknow?" "reporter: robert craig knievel appearstohavelanded inthesnakeriver." "eveldefinitelytried togetout,but hecouldn't." "reporter:" "eveni amveryscared." "pavlovich:" "ithoughthe 'sgone." "they're not gonna get to him in time." "he's gonna drown." "tonning: there was people runningup lookingovertheedge, andlindawasscared, andtheboyswerescared." "robbie knievel:" "ithoughtmy dadwas dead." "i was screaming, crying." "saltman: i got into myhelicopter, got over the canyon, and there from the muddy banks on the side of the river... was evel waving." "andi saidthis-- thankgodthat sonofabitchisalive ." "reporter: evel knievel isstanding intheboatand waving." "heisaliveand well." "(reportersoverlapping)" "i don't know what happened." "i don't know what happened." "just-- i think-- i don't know. i just can't say." "i'll have to let bob and the fellas examine it." "bob, what happened?" "well, this right here is the cover to the parachute canister." "it obviously came loose much too soon, right on the pad." "campoy: what had happened isitwentup." "iknewimmediatelythat thechutehadbeendeployed." "malewicki: it came off because of a mechanical problem withthedesign." "you didn't do a damn thing wrong." "the can is wrong on the thing." "it blew up right there on the launch." " blew up by accident?" " yeah, it was our fault." "it's not your fault." "these things happen." "yes, we should have run one more test." "campoy:" "itwascleartome, ortous , thatitwasamechanical failure, buttherewasanotherstory beingbandedabout backatthepresstent  thatperhaps evelhadreleased thechuteearly." "i told people that that's what happened." "wheni wentto thepresstent  afterthejump, thepresswasaskingforme tocomeandmakeastatement." "i told the press that he-- his hand came off of the bar." "ireallyliked therocketcrew." "they'rejustabunch ofniceguys." "ijustknewthatthem.o. ofhowhe treatedpeople nothingwaseverhis fault." "i told people that that's what happened." "and if by chance that took a little bit of the pressure off of the rocket team, then so be it." "campoy: so it got out thatitwasevel'sfault." "reporter: but the nagging questionremains-- was this the legitimate attempt of a brave man, or was it the great rip-off of 1974?" "wilson:" "thenthepresstorehimup." "'cause they think that he, along with me, had perpetrated a fraud." "hero or hustler?" "or for americans, are those the same thing?" "reporter: it was evel knievel against the snake river canyon, andthecanyon wasthesentimentalfavorite." "evel would have liked his jump to have been huge front-page news, but it was overwhelmingly squashed by the big news of the day, whichwasthepardon ofnixonby presidentford." "thatwasamajortransition inthecountry." "maybe he had outlived his novelty because i think people just might of got tired of listening to it." "and that's when he came back to butte and-- an he was-- i don't know if he was depressed or what." "he just, uh... i thought sure he'd just give up after that, say, "well, you know, i'm done."" "♪englandswings likea pendulumdo ...♪ gunn: he had never beentoenglandbefore." "hethoughtanew crowd, newgroup." "i can snow them a little more than i can the americans." "rose: well, they hadn't heard theteddyrooseveltspeech, be good to your parents, wear a helmet." "♪twoby two♪" "♪westminsterabbey, thetower,bigben ...♪ reporter: evel knievel isalive,well, and back in action in famed old wembleystadium, london,england, fora jumpthatwillbemade" "over13londonbuses." "wilson:" "whenhearrivedinlondon, hehadonlysold3,000seats  fora 100,000-seatstadium, andhewasintrouble." "therewassomepressthere tomeethim." "helooksat thepress, andwhatdidhedo?" ""i'msogladtobehere inengland wherewecame andwonthewar for you ."" "holy... oh?" "and they start writing." "he knew his job, which was to get people in wembley stadium." "wedrovearoundlondon, justmakingfriends." "how you doing?" "what's your name?" "stephen." "reporter:" "sotheyankeepiedpiper collected the young and the old andledthemall  towembleystadium." "80,000 people showed up to watch the man do it." "gifford: so we walked intothearenaofwembley wherethebuseswerelinedup, and he said, "i can't do that."" "i said, "what do you mean you can't do that?"" "i said, "pull a few buses out of there." "come on, it won't hurt a thing to do that."" "now i go over and grab our producer, i said, "doug," i said, "evel says he can't do that."" "he really didn't think he was gonna make it." "gifford: so i went over totalkto evel, andtalkhimout ofit, andhewasina trailer." "we knocked on the door, and he said, "oh, no." "i'll give it a go." "i'll give it a go."" "it was always, "i'll give it a go."" "and he was right." "he couldn't make it." "announcer:" "hereisevelknievel!" "gifford: you know, evel, onehasto wonderafter thesnakeriver, one has to wonder why you continue?" "well, i sometimes think that maybe i should quit, but you always want to keep going, and i'm kind of proud of that red, white, and blue number one i wear on my shoulder, and i want to keep it on there." "i'm glad you're here today." "you know, i've never had an accident when you're around." " good luck." " thanks." "gifford: he told me earlier thatoutsideof thejump atcaesar'spalace wherehewasseverelyinjured, thatthiswillprobablybe themostdifficultjump hehasevermade." "hehurthimselfinindio 1967caesarspalace." "herehegoes." "andhewillgo." "wilson: it was almost eerie, though." "themotorcyclewasghostly." "itwastumblingafterhim,  sortof." "theneventually, itlandedon him." "gifford: he's down andheis hurt." "oh,mygod." "( motorcycle revs ) themanyousee now  leaning over evel is john hood." "that'shischiefmechanic." "hood: i knew, well, he's gotta be hurt on this one." "andi kneeleddown andsaid,"areyou okay?"" "i got his helmet off and he said, "help me up."" "and he wanted the microphone." "i wanna stand up and walk." "now, help me up." "he wants to talk." "he's gonna talk." "ladies and gentlemen... of this wonderful country... i've got to tell you that you... are the last people in the world who will ever see me jump." "because i will never ever, ever jump again." "i am through." "knoxville: that crash wasoneof theworst asfaras injurieswouldgo." "hebrokehishand,back , re-brokehispelvis." "after wembley, i went home to edit." "phone rang." ""hello, doug?" "evel."" "he's calling me from his hospital room in london." ""doug, youcan'tusethatquote."" ""what do you mean, evel?"" ""you can't use that quote, that quote where i said i wouldn't jump again."" "and i said, "well, why?" "'cause i may jump again."" "when the jump was over in london, i said that i'd never jump again." "that was the pain in my body overpowering the brains that i'm supposed to have in my head." "i will jump again, but 13 is an unlucky number." "this time i'm gonna jump 14 buses." "somehow he gets the idea-- i am not gonna go out with a crash." "i'm gonna go back to the united states, and i'm gonna jump 14 buses." "that's just who he was." "you can't do it and say you're the best in the world and then fall off and get up and say, i quit." "not if you're an evel knievel you can't." "reporter: the king's island familyentertainmentcenter, locatedjustoutside ofcincinnati,ohio, isjam-packedwithpeople whohavecometowatch evelknievel outofretirement, andherehe comesrightnow,  robertcraigknievel,evel." "knoxville: a lot was riding onthisjump." "uh,itwasadifferentevel." "imean,he actuallydid  practicejumps." "i'm gonna go, frank." "there's no wind gonna stop me, not even a hurricane." "wilson:" "itwasaverygutsyjump." "thedoctorstoldhim  justdon'teverdothat again." "you know, one little slip, wrong thing, and he'd probably have been paralyzed." "reporter:" "everythingisgo ." "and the total concentration now isgettingthatbike offtheapproachramp andonto thelandingramp ." "andhe'snothesitating." "he'llgo." "(cheersandapplause)" "boy, busted the motorcycle right in half, frank." "boy, it did come apart, didn't it?" " boy, did i hit hard." " yeah, i know." "thank you." "this motorcycle is the finest machine in the world, as far as i am concerned." "it broke in half, but it held me up, and all i can say is thanks to number one, thanks to harley davidson." "you've been so good to me through the years." "i would like to tell all of you something, though, that-- that as far as i am concerned, i have jumped far enough." "today i'm gonna walk away from here with you, and i feel that's being a professional." "that's what i'm gonna do." "knoxville: king's island was the longest jump of his career." "itwasthebiggesttelevision audienceheeverhad , anditwas thehighest-ratedepisode of "wide world of sports" ever." "hedidsomesmalljumps afterthat, butheneverwent thatbigagain." "king's island was... the gunfighter putting away his pistols." "ifyouwereona bike , you'ddostupidshit, butyouwoulddostupidshit inthenameofevel knievel." "hoffman: i thought that'swhyyouhad abike ." "i didn't know you just rode bikes around." "i thought the whole purpose of bikes were to hit things and fly off of 'em." "seth enslow: we'd line up theneighborkids andseewhocouldjump  moreneighbors withoutlandingon 'em andthingslikethat, but we just dreamed of having a motor between our legs." "i loved just going down steps, and i crashed all the time." "you're like, yeah, i'm gonna be just like evel knievel only not as good." "there's no way that a youngster is not going to not want to try to do what his hero does." "i don't think there's anything wrong with a kid wanting to be an evel knievel any more than he'd wanna be an o.j. simpson or frank gifford or be any kind of a professional athlete." " reporter:" "do you view him as a hero?" " yeah." " do you really?" " yeah." "he's one of the greatest heroes." "robbie knievel:" "hewasaherotoso manykids, buthisownson  washisbiggestfan ." "reporter: this is robbie." "lookatthislittleguygo." "wouldn'tyouknow itwouldbe theyoungone whowouldstealit." "he'stheonethat'sgot tohavethelongestwheelie." "robbie knievel:" "hetotallysawmeandhim, and it was like, "i'm gonna be you, dad."" "and the legend continues." "i'm gonna jump the fountains at caesar's palace beforei endmy career." "(cheersandapplause)" "that was for you, dad." "knoxville: yeah, robbie broke all of his dad's records." "imean,hell,hecouldjump fourteenbuseswithnohands." "butrobbiewasjumping onlighter, morepowerfulbikes that were designed for jumping." "leeuwen: he could jump fartherandlongerthanevel  andallthatstuff, butitdidn'tmatter." "robbiecouldn'ttellastory." "you know, he was not a showman." "knievel is the ultimate showman." "a guy could sing longer and louder than elvis presley, but who gave a damn?" "he was elvis presley." "my dad was evel knievel." "(laughter)" "(applause) williams: even when bobbie wasn'tjumpinganymore hestillwantedtobe inthespotlight, and he had to find other things to do to get himself attention." "yeah, one of his projects was hollywood." "♪ viva♪ -♪ viva♪" "♪vivaknievel♪ hamilton: in the end, therewasoneguy  meanttobe evelknievel, andthatwasevel." "evelhadamovie-starquality abouthim." "there's no doubt about it." "uh, not when he tried to act." "look at you, you're trying to destroy yourself." "if you don't believe me, here's the proof." "i'm not gonna let you commit suicide around me." "he performed for the audience, but when it came to the acting part, i guess there's a difference." " that was too far!" " stop it!" " all right..." " stop it!" " any way you want it, man!" " stop it, stop it!" "hood:" "onceitcameout , it was a movie that wasn't really well-received." "♪viva♪ i guess the exciting part's is the jump, huh?" "you know, we've got the wallendas on the highwire, and the mentalist on the edge of the canyon on a motorcycle... saltman: when i knew iwasgonnatakeon thesnakerivercanyonevent," "i decided something very important-- that i would write a book, a legacy, that people could read about the evel knievel promotion of the snake river canyon." "andknievel,he wasmy50/50 partner,andhe says," ""don'tforget, justtellthetruth."" "sowithpermission, icarried anaudio-cassetterecorder duringtheevelknieveltour ." "ifyoulistentothetape,  youcanformyourownopinion." "andsowheniwrotemybook, ikeptoutalotofthings , stuffi would neverwriteabout, 'cause remember, when the book was coming out, i was still protecting his image." "evel's attorney, he checked everything, told me that it had evel's approval in writing, and then the book was published." "little: i was at evel's compoundoneday, and he throws me this book, and he says, "here, keep this." "it'll be worth some money someday."" "i open it up, here's all his footnotes in there." "the first part of the book-- "x-rated evel."" "he writes in there, "constitutes adultery."" "so right from the get-go, you could tell he was mad." "it just starts, and you can tell by the-- the farther it gets in the book, the madder he got." ""this is a lie and not accurate."" "( laughs )" ""lies, lies, lies."" "i read the book, and you know what?" "i said, yeah, what's the problem?" "he could of said a lot more worse stuff. ( laughs ) i read the book a couple times." "i didn't see anything in it bad." "nothing." "it was very factual." "very, very, very factual." "i think that shelly, that wrote it, was, uh, accurate." "and... it made him really mad." "saltman: i was on the20thcenturyfox lot , when all of a sudden, i saw evel, with a big smile coming at me, loping along." "andi wasactually gladtoseehim ." "the book was out, and i was like, maybe i could even talk him into doing some promotion with me." "i said, "hey, evel," and all of a sudden, my hands, they were held behind my back." "they tell me it was two men." "i didn't know them." "it may have been one." "it may have been two." "and he, uh-- he came at me with a bat, an aluminum baseball bat, he said, "i'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch."" "idideverythingicould todefendmyself." "andi remember puttingmyhandup,  i said, "what're you doin'?" "what're you doin'?"" "i was fighting for my life." "and he was wailing on me, and then i passed out." "reporter:" "knievelcameto court accompaniedbyhiswifelinda andhisattorney." "the38-yearolddaredevil faces charges of felony assault inthebaseballbat attack ontelevisionexecutive sheldonsaltman." "tonning:" "knievelcould'vegotten awaywithit ." "he could've if he would've just stopped being knievel for 10 minutes." "reporter: it was a very interesting hour at division 91 ofmunicipalcourt inwhichevelknievel firedhisattorney andenteredapleaofguilty." "he fires them and says to the judge," ""judge, i did it, and i'd do it again." "do what you will with me."" "you know, this old frontier justice thing." "you know, in butte, montana, you settle things out in the street." "you don't settle 'em with lawyers." "and evel always settled it with his fists, or sometimes a tool helped." "not with a baseball bat." "that's not butte." "i never knew of anybody in butte that did that." "if i did not think there was a much stronger judge someday that i will stand before called god than the judge i stood before in that courtroom in san monica, california, i would have killed that lousy little bastard." "i broke his arms with a baseball bat, and i think that's just what he deserved." "i'll guarantee you one thing-- he doesn't write anything else about me." " ( laughter ) - but i mean-- i think i was a sophomore in high school at the time, and i was not proud of my dad for doing that...at all." "stuntman evel knievel got a jail sentence yesterday for beating his former press agent with a baseball bat." "reporter: the judge told the39-year-old motorcycledaredevil thatwhileas ajudge hefoundknievel's admissionofguilt asrefreshing, atthesametime, rafeediesaid, "longago weabandonedfrontierjustice incalifornia."" "withthat,rafeediesentenced knieveltosixmonthsinjail andthreeyearsprobation." "judge is a good judge and he's a fair judge." "rundle:" "course,whenh" ", when he was in jail, judge is a good judge and he's a fair judge." "itwaslike-- i think in his own way, he played it as a game." "knoxville: so he's in jail, buthe'son workrelease." "so he's only in there at night." "andhewouldhave hischauffer pickhimup everymorning andtakehimtothebar." "reporter: knievel believes insharingthewealth." "sothismorning hehiredadozenlimousines totransport his fellow work release inmates totheirjobs." "you know, putting him in jail, he got more press than anything else." "therewasno end totheshenanigans thatguywouldpull." "reporter:" "theinmateswereamazed, buttheauthorities werenotso enthusiastic." "knoxville: well, thejudgegotpissed, andherevokedevel's workreleaseprivileges." "tonning:" "iwaspissedoff athim." "hestartedbelievingthe hype, that he was totally impervious, andhecouldget away withanything." "i don't think he thought about the public." "well, maybe if he did, he thought that," ""that's what they expect of me."" "theidealtoycompany, whichmanufactures theevelknieveltoys, saysithasalreadylost" "$1.6 million since evel knievel wentintothecountyjail ." "we had a meeting at ideal the next day or the day after." "and i said, "you know-- you know, we don't-- we don't sell toys of murderers or gangsters or stuff like that, and so therefore, we are going to suspend sales in the united states."" "reporter:" "onthetoyfront, it may not be a merry christmas for daredevil evel knievel." "the contracts were canceled, and he lost a lot of money, yeah." "it all-- it all started coming apart." "♪anymoreit doesn'tmatter♪ reporter: knievel says hisexperiencein jail wasa goodone, butthatit has sethimbackfinancially." "i hated to see him lose everything he worked for in 10 minutes." "when it was falling apart, it fell apart very quickly." "mccloud:" "thecars,theboats... robbie knievel:" "thelearjets,ferraris, everythingtogo  downthedrain?" "that was hard." "the house that we all loved got repossessed because my dad didn't pay the property taxes." "bank came and got it and the irs sold it." "we loaded up all the furniture, everything of any value, from the saddles to guns, and we would just bring so much out at a time, and we'd have a garage sale." "the arc of the sky cycle is like what happened to his career." "he was at the pinnacle, and then he destroyed his whole life." "evel knievel:" "ijustdroppedout ofsight andplayedgolf." "ijustcompletelywithdrew fromthepublic." "when i met him, he was in a bit of a low point." "i mean, he was kinda just getting by." "hustling golf-- he might make a couple hundred here, a couple hundred here." "he lived day to day at that time." "hedidn'tkeepthe fact thathewasmarried asecretor anything, and in two weeks i packed up what i wanted to take with me, and we went on the road." "linda knievel:" "andi justletitgo." "i thought, the heck with it, you know?" "you know, after 38 years of somebody telling you what to do... i didn't like him." "( chuckles ) i didn't like him." "♪nobodywins♪" "you could see that his health was declining, you know, he was getting worse all the time." "he had a hip replacement, a pelvis reconstruction, a spinal fusion, a liver transplant, seven or eight bouts of staph infection." "evel knievel:" "ihavehepatitisc, andi gotit through bloodtransfusions, andi 'vebeentoldby thedoctorsfiveyearsago thati didn'thave fiveyearsto live." "i'mtakingit  onedayat atime." "yeah, you really felt sorry for him, i did, really." "isaid, "you'rereallyhurting."" "♪ifyou'regonnabedumb,  you'vegottabe tough♪" "♪whenyouget knockeddown , yougottagetbackup♪" "♪i ain'tthesharpestrig inthe10 pack♪" "♪butiknowenoughtoknow♪" "♪ifyou'regonnabedumb,  you'vegottabe tough♪ knoxville:" "thenthe'90scomearound andmotorcyclejumping wasjustonepart ofthiswholenew hugething calledactionsports." "pastrana: it's amazing how quicklythesportsprogressed." "thismultimillionmotorcycle jumping, skateboard riding, surfing industry as definitely come a long way from daredevils to professionals." "in2006,iwas abletoland thefirstdoublebackflip  ona dirtbike." "nooneeverthought thatthatwaspossible." "thebikeshaveevolved." "theridinghasevolved." "theyhavecoaches." "theyhaveschools." "theyhavecamps, but the spirit will never die, and evel was the one that set our foundation for the future." "the thing about the knievels that's really captivating and inspiring to all of us is the showmanship side of it." "(cheersandapplause) istayawakeatnight, andi dwellon  howtodo  whati doin thebiggest, mostgrandestway and to continue this legacy." "announcer:" "matt'sdefinitely--oh !" "hoffman: the extreme sports oractionsports, whateverthey'recommercially referredto, isdefinitelyaresult fromthewayeveldreamed inthe'70s and how he wanted to push the limits." "(" jackass"themesongplays) you can do stunts on television?" "( laughs )" "( bull grunts )" "(crowdgroans)" "(crash,laugh) evelhadto makehis jumps." "the stunts i do, i know they're gonna fail." "( laughs )" "mathoffmanandi dida tributeto evel." "hello, i'm johnny knoxville, and i'm about to back flip this bike." "hoffman: i think we should pushthelimits, getsomeof ourfriends together andjustsetsomerecords and just celebrate evel's life." "and,uh, that'swhatwe did." "ugh!" " !" "and i broke my -- in that tribute." " oh!" "oh!" " are you gonna okay?" "oh, yeah, i feel great." "no,really, itoremy urethra." "thanksa lot,evel." "yeah, i've definitely been compared to evel knievel." "ithinkthat'sbecause ofthefact thati havehad somebigcrashes." "soi figuredi'dsee how far  icanflythe harleydavidson inhonorof evelknievel." "knoxville: when seth enslow didthatrecord-breaking harleydavidsonjump, hededicatedit to evel." "andwhenrobbiemaddison setthenewworldrecord fordistanceby jumping overanentirefootballfield," "hedidit  onthe40thanniversary of evel's caesar's palace jump." "( cheers and applause ) evel knievel was always in the back of my mind, like,-- and it wasn't like we had forgotten about him." "we just didn't really know what he was up to, and i think that people started asking what he was up to." "announcer:" "theoneandonlyo.g. !" "evelknievel!" "hawk: it was great to see anewgeneration understandhowimportant hewasto us ." "somehow we raised his profile again, but he deserved that all along." "krystal knievel: he greatly appreciatedthatthekids paidtheirrespectstohim,  andtheydid, and he was amazed by that." "don't ever forget-- you can fall many times in life, but you will never be a failure as long as you try to get up." "kelly knievel: i think my dad likedhisrole asa elderstatesman attheendofhislife." "he thought it was really cool, and where he deserved to be, deservedly so." "i'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the next 20 years, if i am so lucky to live that long." "i had to have a hip replacement, a complete hip replacement." "i had to have a hip replacement, a complete hip replacement." "i had to have a-- you guys, i'm really having problems." "why don't we-- please." "knoxville: after a lifetime ofinjuriesandsurgeries, thethingthatreallykicked hisasswaslungdisease." "williams:" "ifyou'daskedhim ," ""would you rather have lived this long, bobby, and be this sick or died at the end of the ramp?"" "i think he would have chosen the end of the ramp." "wilson: the last couple of years of his life were hell." "hewashavingtrouble breathing, andbeingin thatlivinghell , he put his life in perspective." "i think he probably thought a lot about the things he'd done and thought about how badly he treated some people." "krystal knievel:" "hewaspreparingfor the end  oneverylevel." "he righted a lot of wrongs with people because he felt like that was important." "it became important to him." "frey: he told me that he had led alifethathewasashamedof in a lot of ways, and he was just trying to talk to the people that he truly-- that truly meant something to him" "was the way he put it, and put it right." "mccloud: he said to me, "iwasso sick."" "he said, "i was just a sick person with women." "it was so wrong,"" "and i said, "ah, dad, it's so good to hear you say that."" "knoxville: he tried to make amendswithpeopleattheend, andthat'sgreat, butit'skindoftough toputthetoothpasteback  inthetubeatthat point." "hecausedalot ofhurt ." "well, first time i ever heard him say "i'm sorry,"" "he was pretty much on his death bed." "yeah, he just said "i'm sorry."" "that was it." "you know... the most important thing in life, uh, that really counts is your scorecard with god." "the real bob knievel, the bobby knievel, that's the guy i knew, and that's the guy that i loved." "and that's the guy that was emerging back out of the slime." "( laughs ) and, uh, i was moved by it." "blackenship: i talked to him thenightbeforehedied ." "he said, "you gotta do me a favor,"" "and i says, "okay, what?"" "and he said, "say a prayer for me once and a while."" "and i said, "okay, all right, all right."" "and he says, "i'm worse than you think."" "i was on the phone with evel, and he started coughing, and the phone dropped, and he went unconscious." "( voice breaks ) so that was it." "but it was hard." "i wasn't ready." "he was ready." "and that's what was important." "you just never thought that evel was gonna die." "knoxville: you know, hewasindestructible, andthen... it... it just reminded you that he was human." "i didn't lose the daredevil." "ilostthislittlekid whoatonetime ithoughtwasmybrother." "that's the indelible knievel to me." "knoxville:" "i still think he's a superhero." "and,yeah,iknow amorecompletestorynow,  and some of the stuff is really heartbreaking,youknow?" "buttome , what he did transcends that." "most of us don't take chances in our lives." "most of us weren't willing to lay it on the line, sotospeak, likehewas." "what my dad did, nobody's ever gonna do again." "but there is a little evel in all of us." "i guess i'd like to have him remembered as, um... a man who, when he was down, got back up." "youknow, heneverquit." "saltman: i think, infairnessto him, they should not remember the evil that evel did." "instead he should be remembered for the good things he did." "intimesof stress, ibelievesomebody ona whitehorse wearinga whitehat willarrive." "that'stheamericanway ." "life's pretty tough." "( laughs ) life can be pretty -- tough." "and, uh... you need your heroes, man." "(peterframpton's "showmetheway "plays) rundle:" "heusedto alwayssay tome, hesays,"thatcanyon hasnotmovedone inch, andi donotsee  abiglonglineofdaredevils waitingtojumpit. 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