The Independent - London, April 19th, 1996
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, killed while performing his highwire act in Gothenburg, Sweden, when his bicycle was blown off the highwire as he performed a solo act at an outdoors winter date. Willi had previously worked with the Bertram Mills Circus in Britain for three years in the early 1930s. In a terrible and horrifying accident in Detroit at a Shrine Circus on 30 January 1962, two members of the Wal...
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