Magician Lee Terbosic will recreate Harry Houdini's suspended straightjacket escape on the 100th anniversary of the original act on Nov. 6, 2016, in downtown Pittsburgh. (Courtesy of Lee Terbosic) ...

PITTSBURGH -- Almost as soon as magician Lee Terbosic began to dangle 90 feet in the air in a canvas straitjacket, he was back on the ground. From the point he began to wriggle, the escape took just ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Canadian magician Zack Mirza pulled off (literally) the classic, death-defying Houdini upside-down straight jacket escape while dangling from a 100 foot crane over Justin ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

Harry Houdini, known throughout the world for his magic and great escapes, mesmerized Dayton in the early 1900s. In December 1916, Houdini was featured on the playbill at B.F. Keith’s Theater in ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A master of escape, Harry Houdini drew crowds of thousands ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Illusionist Jay Owenhouse's attempt to break a decades-old escape record held by the legendary Harry Houdini fell just short Saturday. Houdini died 87 years ago, but still holds the ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH A mid-afternoon event dubbed Houdini’s Great Escape in downtown Huntington Beach became something of a disappearing act instead. Through a miscommunication, when street performer John ...

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