
Film: Man on Wire on Wednesday, August 3, at 7:00 p.m.
On August 7, 1974, a Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the twin towers. After nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. The footage shows the challenges Petit faced in completing the artistic crime of the century.
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