Philippe Petit recounts Twin Towers tightrope stunt
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - The Robert Zemeckis movie "The Walk" (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt) details the true story of a daredevil walking a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. That man was Philippe Petit. He was at the empire state building on Wednesday. Fox 5 spoke to him about that amazing feat so many years ago and the movie adaptation.