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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

10 minutes 22 seconds

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Color illustration. Tight rope stretched across the World Trade Center towers and a man walking across. Caption. A quarter of a mile up in the sky someone was dancing.

Philippe Petit, a young French aerialist, dreamed of walking on a wire between the World Trade Center towers. This is the story of how it happened on August 7,1974, as the towers were being completed. Based on the Caldecott Medal Book by Mordicai Gerstein.

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