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 ...

It took getting used to, but I kept it, even had an EVEL 1 license plate once ... I worked there right out of high school and I saw all of the fashionable people come into the store.

the nickname Evel would come much later and, like all things Knievel, the subject of numerous and often conflicting stories. After dropping out of high school, Knievel was a small-time thief and ...

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 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 ...