Well some of my Facebook friends who were 70s children were posting and liking videos of Evel Knievel yesterday. As such, I think I’ll post this little tidbit about their childhood hero – Knievel once laid a beatdown upon a NBC news photog who, that news reports of the event indicated, asked Knievel to stand for the cameras and refused to smile on command in return.

And the news reports from the era of the scuffle in Twin Falls, Idaho:

• Knievel Shows an Evel Temper (photo of scuffle also on page)
• Evel Shows Where He Got His Name
• Crowds gather for jump, Evel edgy
• Evel Knievel blows his top
• Evel Knievel named in suit