Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible. The figure far less known is the Leipzig-born long jumper whom ... He had bled to death.” In the eyewitness accounts of his comrades ...

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The son of a sharecropper, Owens was born in Alabama. His family moved to ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track ... President Jimmy Carter gave him a Living Legacy Award. When Owens died of lung cancer the next year at 66, the New ...

Luz Long and Jesse Owens 1936 Berlin Olympics On August 4th, in addition, a powerful friendship was born, sustained by a ... of Biscari-Santo Pietro and died four days later in a field hospital ...