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His most well-known run-in with the law was a 1977 attack on movie studio executive Shelly Saltman, whom the daredevil beat with a baseball bat in the parking lot of 20th Century Fox.

Saltman promoted Knievel's infamous attempt to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon and then wrote a book about the experience, angering Knievel by portraying him as "an alcoholic, a pill addict, an anti-Semite and an immoral person."


1 posted on 10/06/2008 8:38:24 AM PDT by Justice Department
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The article only proves that the FBI kept an eye on Evel, but I fail to see any proof of a “dark side”. More AP BS.
2 posted on 10/06/2008 8:43:12 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Before spending any of your hard earned money, ask yourself "Am I funding liberalism?")
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3 posted on 10/06/2008 8:48:08 AM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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Awful Knaufel


4 posted on 10/06/2008 8:51:13 AM PDT by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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Robert Craig Knievel is no longer within the jurisdiction of the FBI, or any other law enforcement organization, so it really doesn’t matter.


9 posted on 10/06/2008 9:05:53 AM PDT by Peter Horry (Mount Up Everybody and Ride to the Sound of the Guns .. Pat Buchanan)
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Daredevil Evel Knievel and his son and fellow daredevil Robbie Knievel embrace at the top of the landing ramp prior to Robbie's successful 180-ft jump during the fifth annual Evel Knievel Days in Butte, Mont., in this July 28, 2006, file photo. Knievel, left, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. He was 69.

12 posted on 10/06/2008 9:13:11 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Actually, this just sounds like some reporter abusing the Freedom Of Information Act. Too bad AP doesn't spend some time pursuing dirt on Obama.
13 posted on 10/06/2008 9:27:32 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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“an alcoholic, a pill addict, an anti-Semite and an immoral person.”

Sounds like any number of actors from Hollywood.


14 posted on 10/06/2008 9:32:44 AM PDT by dljordan
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I don’t see where the FBI would care, let alone have jurisdiction, in any assault case.


19 posted on 10/06/2008 11:41:57 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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Jim Rome interviewed Evel and Evel was telling him about how his people were telling him to stop the Snake River Canyon stunt and that there was a good chance he could die.

When Rome asked him why he didn’t pull our or at least reschedule it Evel Said.

“Do you know who the hell I am? I’m Evel “Freaking” Kneivel”

I gave you a good story, now pass this video around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006.


24 posted on 10/06/2008 2:36:07 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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