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Tightrope walker marks Twin Towers stunt, 50 years on

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Philippe Petit walked between the spires of the World Trade Center skyscrapers, 1,350 feet up, on August 7, 1974 .

Now 74 years old , Petit partly re-created his gravity-defying stunt Thursday in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine .

The feature film The Walk , starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt , and the documentary Man on Wire tell the story of the stunt.

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