Gunther Wallenda was one of the few male members of his world- renowned circus family, the Great Wallendas, to die a natural death in old age. He was 68 and died from a heart attack. His uncle Willi was the first to die,...

Mario Wallenda says he doesn't remember anything about that day in January 1962 when he tumbled from a tightrope at the fairgrounds coliseum in Detroit, an accident that left him a paraplegic and forced his retirement from the family business. The adopted son...