160, ‘The English crowd and people were great’: Classic Bike (February 1999).
161, ‘They were about to put on a show’: A Touch of Evel, BBC/The Learning Channel, 1998.
161, ‘The first time he looked over’: A Touch of Evel, BBC/The Learning Channel, 1998.
164, ‘I just didn’t have enough speed’: Classic Bike (February 1999).
165, ‘Doctors in the UK’: BBC Top Gear (March 1999).
166, ‘It was always scary from the very beginning’: The Last of the Gladiators: Evel Knievel, Twin Tower Enterprises, 1986.
168, ‘I was prettier and just as great’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
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170, ‘Eight inches may not sound like much’: The Journal Herald (27 October 1975).
171, ‘I’ve never been in a better frame of mind’: Dayton Daily News, 1975.
175, ‘The descending ramp was built’: The Journal Herald (27 October 1975).
175, ‘People said I wasn’t scared’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
176, ‘Evel Knievel was the star of the movie’: A Touch of Evel, BBC/The Learning Channel, 1998.
CHAPTER 11
185, ‘He said I was a drug-taker’: FHM (October 1998).
191, ‘Aw, what the hell, you know?’: POPsmear (September/October 1998).
192, ‘They caught me playing golf’: POPsmear (September/October 1998).
192, ‘It was degrading’: FHM (October 1998).
192, ‘I was in there cos I chose to be in there’: POPsmear, (September/October 1998).
193, ‘Guess who they put in with me?’: Icon (April 1998).
194, ‘If somebody tells lies about you’: A Touch of Evel, BBC/The Learning Channel, 1998.
201, ‘My dad was flamboyant’: Maxim (October 1998).
202, ‘I started to think he might be jealous’: Maxim (October 1998).
205, ‘My Knievel toys made $300 million’: the-vu.com, (September 1998).
206, ‘The US Government is run’: FHM (October 1998).
207, ‘All these so-called Christian people’: POPsmear, (September/October 1998).
208, ‘I think that I began to feel so bad’: The Last of the Gladiators: Evel Knievel, Twin Tower Enterprises, 1986.
208, ‘I stayed for two days then escaped’: Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly (June 2001).
208, ‘The FBI had investigated’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
209, ‘When I pray and when I question God’: The Last of the Gladiators: Evel Knievel, Twin Tower Enterprises, 1986.
210, ‘The most precious times’: The Last of the Gladiators: Evel Knievel, Twin Tower Enterprises, 1986.
210, ‘It comes to a point where everybody needs to be needed’: The Last of the Gladiators: Evel Knievel, Twin Tower Enterprises, 1986.
CHAPTER 12
212, ‘I was always creative’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
214, ‘The president of Brown & Bigelow’: POPsmear, (September/October 1998).
214, ‘You can be famous for a lot of things’: Esquire (July 1999).
214, ‘She was bitching too much’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
216, ‘I was at Turnberry in North Miami’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
217, ‘When you get married, you stay married’: St Petersburg Times, (21 June 1998).
218, ‘I never met anybody’: Icon (April 1998).
223, ‘I knew Elvis, I knew Frank Sinatra’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
225, ‘Loving someone doesn’t mean’: Esquire (July 1999).
226, ‘I always said I’d pay $1,000’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
228, ‘They told me to quit drinking’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
CHAPTER 13
231, ‘Some people think that if you’re rich’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
232, ‘It is a bitch’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
233, ‘He’s just seven’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
234, ‘They don’t ask me to jump’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
239, ‘As she [Krystal] was driving’: Hollywood Five-O (spring 2003).
240, ‘He gave me a gift’: Evel Ways: A Daring Approach to Life, GraF/X, 1999.
240, ‘…when they take your liver out’: Minnesota Motorcycle
Monthly, (June 2001).
242, ‘I have an agreement with a big investment firm’: Motor Cycle News (1 July 1998).
244, ‘I can’t even go in a grocery store’: Motor Cycle News (1 July 1998).
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245, ‘He initially would leave flowers’: St Petersburg Times (21 February 2002).
246, ‘Women are like buses’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
250, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to jump’: www.knievel korner.co.uk
250, ‘I’ll jump over 200 feet’: www.knievelkorner.co.uk
251, ‘By jumping again at my age’: New York Press, Volume 15, Issue 34.
251, ‘If I make this last jump’: Evel Knievel’s Great Ride, Tri-Crown Productions, 2003.
253, ‘I’ve given a couple of weeks of my time here’: Evel Knievel’s
Great Ride, Tri-Crown Productions, 2003.
254, ‘I was an alcoholic’: Hollywood Five-O (spring 2003).
255, ‘I have a ride that you can get on’: www.knievelkorner.co.uk
258, ‘Given the worldwide interest’: The Mail on Sunday (25 January 2004).
260, ‘Some people can only dream’: the-vu.com (September 1998).
261, ‘I tell ya, I don’t know what’: Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly (June 2001).
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264, ‘Devil, devil, you bastard you’: www.hourofpower.org.
265, ‘We started singing “Amazing Grace”’: Christianity Today
Magazine (April 2007, web only).
266, ‘the fibrosis was caused by a drug’: Motor Cycle News (14 June 2006).
266, ‘The amount in these suckers’: Motor Cycle News (14 June 2006).
269, ‘I’ve done things that I’m not proud of’: Motor Cycle News (14 June 2006).
270, ‘Evel Knievel is directed with such over-the-top gusto’: LA Weekly Review (10 October 2007).
273, ‘We are going hot and heavy after his estate’: The Associated Press (3 December 2007).
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Barker, Stuart, ‘Evel Knievel: I Did It Fly Way’, Motor Cycle News (1 July 1998).
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NEWSPAPERS
Cycle News East, Daily News, Dayton Daily News,
LA Herald-Examiner, National Tattler, Rocky Mountain News,
St Petersburg Times, Sunday Chronicle-Herald, Sunday News,
The Globe and Mail, The Hutchinson News, The Journal Herald,
The Mail on Sunday, The Mercury, Tucson Daily Citizen,
Chicago Herald-Tribune, The Montana Standard.
WEBSITES
www.antiquelynx.com, www.borntoride.com, www.billingsnews.com,
www.butteinfo.org,www.cbsnews.com,www.csifiles.com,
www.divorcemag.com, www.ekrockopera.com, www.evel1.com,
www.evelknievel.com, www.evelknievel.us, www.filmforce.ign.com,
www.focusonhepc.com, www.foxnews.com,
www.gamblingmagazine.com, www.hollywoodfiveo.com,
www.liveworld.com,www.knieveldays.com,
www.knievelkorner.co.uk, www.mainstreetbutte.org,
www.montanaforum.com, www.piccadillymuseum.com,
www.pinball.org, www.reviewjournal.com, www.sunnews.com,
www.the-vu.com, www.tvzap2it.com, www.twincities.com
Index
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A
Australia 197–8
ABC 53–4, 62, 70, 120–1, 138, 142,
161, 167, 168, 172, 176, 181
Accardo, Tony ‘Big Tuna’ 208–9
Airtime, Johnny 249
Albers, Bucky 175
Ali, Muhammad 5, 54, 128, 168, 201, 203, 269
Alladin Industries 124
Allen, Irwin 177
Aloha from Hawaii 84
AMA (American Motorcycle Association) 36, 87
American Eagle 81, 82, 92, 94, 200
American Rocket Society 118
Anaconda Copper Mining Company 10–11, 19–20, 27
Ankney, Pete 170
Apollo 13 118
Arctic Explorer Set 123
Armageddon 73–4
Arum, Bob 127–8, 129, 130, 137–8, 140, 154, 161, 168
Ascot Park Speedway 53, 54
Aston Martin Lagonda 224
Astrodome, Houston 183
Auto Daredevil Show 15
B
‘Ballad of Evel Knievel, The’ 146
Bally Manufacturing Corporation 124
Bakker, Jim 265
Barger, Sonny 88–9
Barry, Alma 267
BBC 47, 194, 237
Beeline Dragway 76–7
Bek, Jef 256
Bell Magnum helmet 68
Berkeley Pit 9
Berlin Wall 159
Berliner Motor Corporation 44, 47
Bezark, Fred 209
Bionic Woman, The 184
Blair, Bob 47
BMX 234–5
Bob Knievel and his Motorcycle Daredevils 47, 50–2
Bond, James 72–3, 74, 224
Bork, John 22–3, 113, 114
Bork, Linda Joan 22–3, 28, 36, 68, 69, 96, 102, 110, 112–13, 140, 143, 151, 165, 166, 178, 205, 206, 207, 210, 214, 217
Boyle, Paddy 28
Brambilla, Marco 242
Brando, Marlon 86
Branker, Don 136
Brooks, Garth 101
Brown & Biglow 214
BSA 35
Buis, Jeanie (step-mother) 32
Buis, Roy (step-grandfather) 14
Butte Bombers 21–2
Butte High School 16–17, 22, 144
Butte Press Club 248
Butte, Montana 9–11, 273–4
Buttons, Red 176
C
Caesar’s Palace 3, 60–7, 68, 70–1, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80–1, 85, 90, 91, 155, 163, 169, 173, 201, 230, 235, 241
California Motorcycle Company (CMC) 235, 241, 244
Canadian National Exhibition 127
Canyon Sky Cycles 122
Caruso, Paul 188
CBS 138, 181–2
Cerone, Jackie 208–9
Chamberlain, Wilt 112
Charles, Prince 98
Charlotte Clippers 21
Chicago International Amphitheatre 104, 182
Chitwood, Joey 15, 16, 38–9, 43 Chomsky, Martin J. 91
Coleman, Pete 81
Combined Insurance Company 30, 31
Connery, Sean 223–4
Continental Divide Raceway 100
Cooley City 40
Cooper, Ben 124
Cooper, Henry 160
Cordor, Paul 134, 135
Cosgriff, Chuck
157
Cow Palace 85, 87, 88, 91, 104, 115
Crystal Cathedral 262–4
Czechoslovakian Olympic hockey team 21–2
D
Dahood, Wade 248
Daly, John 159, 161, 164
Daredevil Lynch 43
Dave Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award 236
Davidson, Arthur 93
Davidson, Bill 277
Davis, Gary 105, 176
Delaney, Joe 56, 107
Derek, Bo 70
Derek, John 70
Dick Cavett Show 106
Dosen, Joe 37
Douglas, Gordon 84, 177
Draper, Mike 115
E
Eads, George 259
Eagles, Gil 143
Eastern Hockey League 21
Edgley, Michael 197–8
Eng, Jimmy 27
English Channel 159
Escape from Skull Canyon Set 122
Evans, Linda 70
Evel Eye 1 204
Evel Incarnate: The Life and Legend of Evel Knievel (Mandich) 37, 88, 213
Evel Knievel (Hamilton) 34, 90–1, 95, 96–7, 106, 138, 259, 271
Evel Knievel (made-for-TV movie) 268
Evel Knievel (opera) 270
Evel Knievel Day 244
Evel Knievel Daze 254
Evel Knievel Death Defiers 84, 182
Evel Knievel F-150 Gladiator 249
‘Evel Knievel says Goodbye Tour’ 128
Evel Knievel Great Ride 226, 249
Evel Knievel Labor Day Golf Tournament 196–7
Evel Knievel Night (BBC2) 237
Evel Knievel on Tour (Saltman/Green) 185–6, 273
Evel Knievel Week 244, 253, 254
Evel Knievel Xperience 255–6
Evel Knievel: An American Hero (Collins) 34
Evel Knievel: Portrait of a Daredevil 168
Evel Knievel: The Last of the Gladiators (Mulchahy) 46, 213–14
Evel Knievel’s Greatest Hits 222
Evel Knievel’s Pain-relieving Gel 226
Evel Ways: The Attitude of Evel Knievel 46, 87
Evergreen Speedway, Washington 57
Extreme sports 228, 244, 260–1
F
FAA 100, 120
FBI 27, 208
Federal Communications Commission 142
Ferriter, Jack 212, 213
Filthy McNasty’s 178
Fonda, Peter 115
Forbes, Carl 237
Ford, Gerald 196
Fox Telecommunications 186
Frazier, Joe 273
Freeway Tavern, Butte 131, 132
Frost, David 144, 145, 146–7, 150, 159
G
Gibson, Mel 258–9
Gifford, Frank 161, 176