
Evel Knievel: America’s dastardly daredevil (with Horatio Gould) | Part one
From The Upshot
Published 8/5/2025
Snake River Canyon, Idaho 1973. A baying mob of drunken biker gangs and bloodthirsty thrill-seekers watch on, as a lunatic in a star spangled jumpsuit is strapped to a military rocket. And that was just an ordinary day for America’s most notorious daredevil. He bunked up with Charles Manson,…


