The Associated Press reports the legendary daredevil died today.
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. (more . . )
I reported back in September his remarkable conversion to Christian faith and his baptism at the Crystal Cathedral in California. That post and video-link can be found here.
Update 12/1/07 - In articles summarizing his life I haven't yet seen any mention of his remarkable late-date Christian conversion. I suppose that is a sign of our secular society which doesn't think such things important. Knievel, I think, probably thought it the most important event/happening in his life. See the link in the paragraph above.