Sure, it was the day that Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, but maybe more importantly, it was also the day Evel Knievel tried — and failed — to jump across the Snake River Canyon on a jet ...

In 1977, if you’d asked me to name four important things, I’d have said: that Evel Knievel broke every bone in his body at least once; that Evel Knievel’s nickname was inspired by a ...

He was accepted off the wait list at Cornell. In graduate school, Evel’s professor asked him which horn of Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma he would choose. He replied, “Both,” walked out of the ...

For several years beginning in the late 1960s, Evel Knievel was “the coolest man on earth,” said Kyle Smith in the New York Post. By tracing the life of the motorcycle daredevil from his ...

A Las Vegas industrial building that has sat vacant for 20 years is to be transformed into the home of Topeka's Evel Knievel Museum. A historic place designation is being sought for that structure ...

For men of a certain age, Evel Knievel is a touchstone of innocence ... Knievel went from high-school dropout to inveterate thief and shakedown artist to regional salesman for the Combined Life ...