Robbie Knievel, who followed in the daredevil footsteps of his father Evel Knievel, died Friday at age 60, according to his brother, Kelly.
He was 60. “He was in hospice for about four days. He had advanced pancreatic cancer,” Kelly Knievel told CNN. “He knew he was sick for probably six months.” Robbie Knievel began motorcycle stunts in his teens and went on to do death-defying jumps over fountains at Caesars Palace and the aircraft on the deck of the USS Intrepid. He performed more than 300 jumps and set 20 world records during his career, according to his official biography.
As for Robbie, he took pride in what he did, despite the dangers. “I’m very proud of the fact that my dad pretty much created his own entertainment, sport, whatever you want to call it,” he told CNN’s Larry King in a 1989 interview. In the same interview, his father had said while he was proud of his son’s stunt work, he had tried to make Robbie promise as a child he would not follow his same career path out of concern for his safety.
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