Like Harry Houdini, I'm performing my straitjacket escape without a curtain. (He found that audiences preferred watching him struggle.) Unlike Harry Houdini, I'm not escaping (although I'm doing fine ...

Houdini was famous for his straitjacket escape; now magician and Louisville native Lance Burton does it on live TV, and later puts Terry Meiners in his place. See five magicians including Lance Burton ...

PITTSBURGH -- Almost as soon as magician Lee Terbosic began to dangle 90 feet in the air in a canvas straitjacket, he was back on the ground. From the point he began to wriggle, the escape took just ...

Earlier this month, Lucas Wilson of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada achieved a new Guinness World Record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket and chains while hanging upside down. Performing at the ...