Watch this 1910 footage of illusionist Harry Houdini’s iconic suspended straitjacket escape
Houdini would have himself himself strapped into a regulation straitjacket and suspended by his ankles from a crane or a tall building in New York.
Harry Houdini performs a straight jacket routine in front huge crowds in Boston. Archive footage dated around 1910.
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