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: Yeah it was Bob Truex's fault for not fixing
: the chute . Evel was lucky he was'nt killed
: by the jutting rocks , as he scrapped the
: side of the canyon . As it was an open
: cockpit. BTW the chute did'nt FULLY CANOPY
: till he was across the canyon . It was the
: head wind that was his real problem as it
: blew him back to the takeoff side .
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: I have the book Evel Knievel On Tour. If you
: really want to understand the mindset of
: Evel check out the hand written comments he
: made in the book. Joe Little from Butte
: Montana has it and talked about it in the
: movie. The hand written comments show you
: that Evel didn't read the book or understand
: the book. I believe it was a frusting year
: for Evel. He was attacked in the Press
: leading up to the Chicago Shark Jump. Viva
: Knievel bombed at the box office. And Evel
: didn't have any kind of cast on his arms
: when he went after Saltman. In fact he
: filmed the Bionic Woman Episode before this
: and you don't see any cast on his arms. Evel
: said that he did have cast on his arms . He
: said that because he needed an excuse for
: having another man or men hold Saltman.
: Either way he paid the price for his acts.
: And the fans paid the price just as much as
: Evel did.
:
: One reviewer of Pure Evel made a remark
: about how quickly Evel aged after 1977. And
: not only did Ideal Toys drop him, most of
: his friends did as well. I don't know what
: Roger Reiman thought about it but it was
: indeed a very dark time for Evel. Evel never
: graduated from High School but I think he
: was a very intelligent man. Street smarts I
: guess. He built his empire from the ground
: up. That's why this was so tough to see what
: happened.
:
: I remember seeing how bad he looked in The
: Bionic Woman episode but then I thought it
: might have been because he was still
: recovering from the Shark Jump accident.
: Interesting that the security cameras didn't
: capture the action . I guess they didn't use
: them back then. I did hear that someone got
: in trouble for letting Evel and the other
: men into the backlot without proper security
: clearance .
:
: Now I hope all of the hate for Shelly
: Saltman stops. He's a good man. Thanks to
: Johnny Knoxsville and others involved in the
: filming for being fair to both Evel and
: Saltman in the Movie. I do find it
: interesting that even after all of these
: years nobody knows who helped Evel with the
: beating. Nobody can give a description of
: the other man or men who helped. And Evel
: was very lucky that he received such a short
: time in jail.
:
: Being only 15 years old at the time I had
: never heard about the dark side of Evel. I
: never saw the Rolling Stone Story from 1974.
: I never heard anything negative about Evel
: during that time. When it was first reported
: on the news I couldn't understand it. Even
: if Saltman had written a book Evel didn't
: like I couldn't understand why Evel would do
: what he did. He had to have known he would
: get in trouble for it. But with all of this
: being said fans should still respect his
: legacy even if it's a bit tarnished.
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