Clyde Beatty--Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus 1933

Clyde Beatty, as we have been told by "experts" on the "history channel" trained only adult "jungle bred killers" captured straight from the jungle, using only two year old's which could be trained properly. Although there are dozens of pictures of Beatty, Stark, and the "Oaks" trainers with cubs, that's the story and we are sticking too it. Joe Horvath and Lou Reagen who were both at the "Oaks" during this time, said that wasn't true, and two year old's were only used in a jam if you needed extra animals to just sit on the seat's and fill the arena.