*Ø* Blogmanac October 24, 1901 | Over Niagara at 63 years old!
1901 Anna (or Annie) Edison Taylor, a 63-year-old Bay City, Michigan, USA school teacher, became the first person to survive the ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She did it for money to help pay the mortgage. Her words following the stunt: "No one ought ever do that again."
The next person over the Falls in a barrel was Bobby ‘The Canadian Daredevil’ Leach, a native of Cornwall, UK, who survived his July 25, 1911 plunge over Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls in a cylindrical steel barrel, resulting in six months in hospital recuperating from a broken jaw, and two broken kneecaps.
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Daredevils of Niagara Falls
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I ask no one to ever try such a stunt, or an act of sadness again, because depression is a terrible thing, and we must feel sorry for all those who have not survived such an endeavour that I have taken.
Kirk Jones "Don't try this": Niagara jumper speaks out, Oct 23, 2003
1901 Anna (or Annie) Edison Taylor, a 63-year-old Bay City, Michigan, USA school teacher, became the first person to survive the ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She did it for money to help pay the mortgage. Her words following the stunt: "No one ought ever do that again."
The next person over the Falls in a barrel was Bobby ‘The Canadian Daredevil’ Leach, a native of Cornwall, UK, who survived his July 25, 1911 plunge over Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls in a cylindrical steel barrel, resulting in six months in hospital recuperating from a broken jaw, and two broken kneecaps.
Daredevil Chronological Lists
Daredevils of Niagara Falls
I ask no one to ever try such a stunt, or an act of sadness again, because depression is a terrible thing, and we must feel sorry for all those who have not survived such an endeavour that I have taken.
Kirk Jones "Don't try this": Niagara jumper speaks out, Oct 23, 2003
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