5/13/2023 0 Comments Houdini handcuff escape![]() ![]() Wikimedia Commons photo by John Thurston. ![]() Harry Houdini jumped from the Harvard Bridge in Massachusetts in 1908. First arriving in Castle Island, New York, the day before Independence Day, 1878, they relocated to Appleton, Wisconsin, where Houdini’s father immigrated two years earlier and became the town’s rabbi. When he was just four years old, Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss) and his four siblings emigrated from Hungary to the US with their mother. During his time as a magician, Houdini’s performances garnered enough fame and wealth to allow him to tour the world, but when war broke out in Europe, the renowned escape artist stepped out of the spotlight to teach survival and escape techniques to American soldiers and spies. Harry Houdini - the magician best known for his death-defying escapes underwater, underground, and in the air - played a significant yet little-known role in the American war effort during World War I. ![]()
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