4. David Copperfield – Made the Statue of Liberty disappear. Broadcast on television across the nation, he performed an illusion where the Statue of Liberty disappeared before the live cameras and a live audience.
3. Harry Houdini – East River box escape. New York’s East River on July 7, 1912. One of Houdini’s most famous public escapes. He was handcuffed, nailed into a wooden crate, and lowered into the East River with a 200 pound anchor. He escaped in about 50 seconds without evidence of opening the wooden box.
2. David Blaine – Frozen in Time. November 27, 2010. Times Square stunt where David Blaine stood in a block of ice for 60+ hours. David also has performed several stunts in NYC including Buried Alive (He stays in a box buried under water with nothing to eat for seven days), Vertigo (Stands on a 100 ft poll for 35 hours), Above the Below (lives in a box for 44 days), and others.
1. Philippe Petit – Wire walk between Word Trade Center Twin Towers. August 7, 1974. Philippe Petit, a street performer and self taught wire walker, performs his greatest illegal stunt by putting a wire between the Twin Towers and walking on it for 45 minutes. Petit’s stunt was performed after months of planning when the Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world. This cemented the fame of the New York City’s World Trade Center. The story is a basis of my favorite documentary movie called Man on Wire where the real participants tell the story.
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I disagree with you about your definition of ‘stunt’. I think that Petit did not do a stunt! It was an artistic feat. He controls his discipline. Most of the other ‘stunt’ performers do 1 stunt at a time. Petit has done many high wire walks around the world. Each one has it’s own artistic merit. That is not a stunt!