Bob Yerkes, who has died aged 92, was a circus performer who found fame beyond the Big Top working as a Hollywood stuntman ...
Horrifying footage captured the moment a circus acrobat fell and broke both arms ... Video showed Zapashnaya climb onto her male partner before the two started to spin while getting pulled up ...
He was hooked immediately. When he was 15 his parents divorced and he ran away to join the circus, becoming an accomplished acrobat, touring firstly with the DeWayne Brothers’ Circus ...