Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten Championships when he was a student at The Ohio State ...

Democrats offered to buy him a house in Ohio, but a Sun Oil executive paid him a large fee to campaign for Landon, William J. Baker wrote in his 1986 book “Jesse Owens: An American Life.” ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... 220-yard dashes and the long jump (called the broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest ...

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 ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... In his junior year at Ohio State, Owens competed in 42 events and won them all, including four in the Big Ten Championships ...