Robert Craig Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer. He attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. He died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in 2007, aged 69.
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Robert Craig Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer. He attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. He died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in 2007, aged 69. His surname is of German origin; his paternal great-great-grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Germany. His mother was of Irish ancestry; he was a cousin of the former Democratic Congressman from Montana, Pat Williams. His father was a diamond drill operator with the Anaconda Mining Company in Butte, Montana. He started the Butte Bombers, a semi-pro hockey team, to help promote his team and earn some money. He hitchhiked from Butte to Washington, D. C., in 1961 to raise awareness and to have the elk relocated to areas where hunting was permitted. He later started the Sur-Kill Guide Service to help support his family. He had moderate success on the motocross circuit and made enough money to make enough money for his family to support him and his wife, Linda Joan Bork. He also won the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Association Class A Men’s ski jumping championship in 1959. He wanted recognition for his efforts and wanted to promote him after a vice-president of his insurance company refused to promote his efforts for his company. He credited much of his success to Napoleon Hill’s book Through a Positive Mental Attitude, a book that Stone wrote with Napoleon Hill, a friend of Knievell’s.
His son, Kelly, was born in 1962. He left Butte High School after his sophomore year and got a job in the copper mines as a diamond drilling operator. His athletic ability allowed him to join the track team, where hewas a pole vaulter. After his army stint, he met and married his first wife,. After the birth of his first son,Kelly, Knievell realized that he needed to come up with a new way to support hisFamily financially. In 1962, he broke his collarbone and shoulder in a moto-cross race for a few months. The doctors said he could not not race for at least six months. In the late 1960s, he hitchhike to D.C. and raised awareness about the culling of elk in Yellowstone. He presented his case to Representative Arnold Olsen, Senator Mike Mansfield, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. The elk culling was stopped in the late 60s, and he returned home from Washington, C. C. : 21–22. He married his second wife in 1964. He and Kelly had three children, Kelly and Nic, and Kelly died in 2007. He is survived by his wife and two step-children, Linda Bork, and his son Kelly, who is now in his late 80s and 90s. He has a daughter, Kelly Knieveson, and a son, Nic Knieverson.
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