This is a picture of the cannon and the human cannon ball at the Hadi Shrine Circus in Evansville at Roberts Stadium in 2011. So, it's no stretch to think what Adam said on A&E's biography wasn't true or accurate. We see that they were doing it there, at least, as early as 1958 and all the way t...

Here are two, more recent, pictures from Roberts Stadium. (It closed down in 2011 and was torn down in 2013..opened in 1956) From one of the Shrine Circuses: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QDTnAf3uO1A/TPFAio_A_qI/AAAAAAAAEZA/AFS-aKU9DeA/s400/Evansville%2Bshrine.jpg When the basketball court is set up: ht...

If Adam is center ring, where is cannon or net? Should we see that maybe? I assume he flew length wise. Also, the pic of Adam and lil clown looks like the inside of a trailer, possibly the one he is outside of ? Facebook post has both side by side. On the yellow program, is that the Batman they use...

They do not look familiar, but I was quite young in 1977. Those are not from the circus program, but advertisements for the circus, in 1977, featuring Adam West as Batman. They're neat! Where did you find them? By the way, the circus program was sold at the gate or once you were inside Roberts stadi...

^Right after that he started with the rocket ship. While he had the mic, he did the whole routine about Robin not being there. That picture really brings back memories. Pretty darn neat thread, for me! I wish I still had that years circus program and the “autographed” Batman West headshot. I was fac...

^ Kinda of a jerk that lady. Lol Anyhow, that's a nice article to have for posterities sake. She went to the Thanksgiving day performance, so that was the first day. I'm not sure why she didn't mention him being shot out of the cannon, but it seemed that she was very disinterested in anything to do ...

^ Empty message, Steve.

- Ian

Check out this June 10, 2017 Facebook post by Anthony Sumner. The attached picture is of Anthony in the fourth grade dressed as a clown. He claims he is the one who lit the fuse of the cannon that day at the Shrine Circus. Anthony says he won his school's Clown for a Day contest, whose prize was pe...

I also meant to say that he may not have been blasted out of the cannon after Friday and the Shriners certainly were in no position to put up much resistance. They needed him as much and most likely much more than he needed them. Although, it was a great circus, they couldn't lose Batman...he was th...

I'm from Evansville and was at the Friday evening show. It was exceptionally cold for Thanksgiving time. I remember my face feeling frozen as we walked from Roberts Stadium parking lot to the stadium itself. There were two shows on Thursday, three on Friday and Saturday and two more on Sunday. They ...