For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II." Owens, though, would continue to correspond with ...

But during this time of the 2024 Olympics, it is good to reflect on what Jesse Owens accomplished in the 1936 games. Years before World War II, years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier ...

Jesse Owens. Bolt is in his 21st-century lane ... Then there’s Owens in his pre-World War II lane, an uneven bed of cinders, a soft surface that actually steals energy from his legs as he ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted storm troopers goose ...