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 ...

“After the Games, Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s right-hand man, called him ... as “the son of my old sports friend Luz”. Thirteen years later, during filming for Jesse Owens returns to Berlin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

and an inspiring drama about one man’s fight to become an Olympic legend. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, Race stars Stephan James (of Selma) as Jesse Owens, Jason Sudeikis, and Academy Award ...