Daredevil Motorcyclist Evel Knievel Dies
Most of us grew up with Evel Knievel. He was a real Comic Book Hero. He lived hard and his body took a lot of abuse. Just days ago he made peace with Kanye West, so Evel knew the end was near R.I.P.
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.Source: breitbart.com
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel and rap star Kanye West have worked out their legal differences over images in a 2006 music video.
Knievel said that he and West met one-on-one at his Clearwater, Fla., condominium recently. They settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.At issue was West’s 2006 “Touch The Sky” video, where rapper takes on the persona of “Evel Kanyevil” and tries to jump a rocket-powered motorcycle over a canyon.
Source: Denver7
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