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Written by Ben Branch |
May 31st 2011
This 1971 interview on The Dick Cavett Show features a relaxed, philosophical, wise-cracking Evel Knievel. The interview has been split into 3 parts and, rather brilliantly, still has all the original early-70s television advertisements in place.
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