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A horse-diving show was an in-residence act held at New Jersey's Steel Pier. Pressure from animal-rights activists and declining demand led to the act being shuttered in the 1970s. Although there was a brief resumption of the act at the pier in 1993, it was again shut down amid opposition.
Her younger sister, Arnette Webster (later French), had joined the show in 1930 and started diving in 1931. [18] [19] Al and Sonora Carver retired in 1942. The act finally closed as a result of pressure from animal rights groups in the 1970s. Sonora Carver, however, always contended that the horses were never forced to dive and, in fact ...
Webster answered an ad placed by William "Doc" Carver in 1923 [2] for a diving girl and soon earned a place in circus history. Her job was to mount a running horse as it reached the top of a 40-foot (12 m) - sometimes 60-foot (18 m) - tower and sail down on its back as it plunged into an 11-foot (3.4 m) pool of water directly below.
A 1970 photograph by photojournalism student John Filo taken at a protest against the war in Vietnam was doctored as well. ... #43 Federico Caprilli Demonstrates The Skills Of His Horse As Part Of ...
Jan. 10—At the Maine State Fair in 1925, Dr. Carver's Diving Horses made a splash. People flocked to the fairgrounds in Lewiston to see "The Girl in Red" make a "suicide jump" clinging to the ...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is a 1991 American drama film directed by Steve Miner.It concerns Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses. Gabrielle Anwar stars as Carver alongside Michael Schoeffling and Cliff Robertson.
Another memorable regular feature in the 1960s and 1970s was Mexican cliff diving. The lone national television broadcast of the Continental Football League was a Wide World of Sports broadcast of the 1966 championship game; ABC paid the league $500 for a rights fee, a minuscule sum by professional football standards.
His 1970 solo masterpiece, After the Gold Rush, and chart-topping 1972 follow-up Harvest made Young a solo star, his gauzy country-folk placing him at the vanguard of a wave of singer-songwriters.