meeting him at Hamburg’s Hotel Atlantic and introducing him at the match as “the son of my old sports friend Luz”. Thirteen years later, during filming for Jesse Owens returns to Berlin ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin ... in the breeze,” the United Press reported, “Old Man Nordic supremacy took an awful kicking around ...

PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained ... life expectancy includes parts of South Phoenix at 71 years old. In Scottsdale, data shows the life expectancy is 85.

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the ...

92-year-old Hildegard Fraser ... they confiscated a letter to Jesse Owens. "Around 4000 athletes lived here, only men were accommodated, the women over 350 were accommodated on the main venue.

Never mind that Johnson actually married Cameron later that same year. In 1936, Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Berlin. Avery Brundage, the president of both the U.S. Olympic ...

This is the guy who showed the master race they were the minor race. Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Jim Murray on ESPN Classic's ...