After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, ... Not until 1950 did Gisela learn from a friend working at the Hamburg office for prisoner of war inquiries that Luz’s grave had been found, ...

Owens, who has spent some time training younger kids with his dad, has taken a liking to that aspect of basketball after ...

Thankfully avoiding a cradle-to-grave summation of Owens’ life, “Race” fills in all the most pertinent biographical details briskly enough in the opening stages: his Alabama birthplace and ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s.In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

It's a tale often repeated that Hitler stormed out of Olympic Stadium so he wouldn't have to congratulate Owens on his victory - in his view nothing close to the Aryan ideal which he was striving for.

After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, ... Not until 1950 did Gisela learn from a friend working at the Hamburg office for prisoner of war inquiries that Luz’s grave had been found, ...