november 30, 2007 02:21pm

Death Catches up to Evel

Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies at Age 69 - Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday, November 30th. He was 69.

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump an Idaho canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Click here for story

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