Roger Woodward (Niagara Falls)
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- This article is about the man that survived a plunge over the Horseshoe (Niagara) Falls. For the pianist, see Roger Woodward.
Roger Woodward (born in 1953) became famous at the age of seven (7) when he survived a plunge over the Niagara Falls.
On July 9, 1960, he and his sister, seventeen-year-old Deanne Woodward, were taken on a boat ride in the upper Niagara River by a local man named Jim Honeycutt. The boat's motor failed and it capsized, sending its passengers into the water rapidly approaching the cataract. Honeycutt was swept over the Falls and died. His body was found four days later. Deanne was rescued from the water just metres from the brink of the Canadian Falls.
Roger, who was wearing a life jacket, went over the Horseshoe Falls and miraculously survived. A Maid of the Mist boat lifted him out of the water downstream of the Falls. He suffered only a slight concussion.
