Getting A Jump On Life

Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel received a long-awaited liver transplant and was recovering Wednesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. Knievel, 60, was listed in stable condition, but no details were released. Knievel has hepatitis C, which destroyed his liver and which he believes he contracted from one of the many blood transfusions he needed following his spectacular crashes on the daredevil circuit in the 1960s and 1970s. Knievel broke at least 35 bones, including his pelvis twice, and underwent surgery 14 times during his stunt career, which ended in 1981. One of his most famous stunts failed when his parachute opened as he was zooming over Idaho’s Snake River canyon in 1974.