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5 giorni fa · Jesse Owens was an American track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His Olympic victories were a blow to Adolf Hitler’s intention to use the Games to demonstrate Aryan superiority.
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- Jesse Owens was an American athlete. He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long ju...
- Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. He was the 10th and final child of two sharecroppers; his grandparents had been s...
- After the Olympics ended, stories claiming that Jesse Owens had been snubbed by Adolf Hitler circulated widely. While it is true that Hitler did no...
- Jesse Owens struggled to find work after the Olympics. He raced against horses for money and worked as a gas station attendant and a playground jan...
- A heavy smoker, Jesse Owens died of lung cancer on March 31, 1980, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 66. Four years after his death, a street in Berlin wa...
19 giu 2024 · Jesse Owens is considered the greatest track and field athlete in history. Read about his 1936 Olympics performance, wife, records, cause of death, and more.
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21 ore fa · “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” originally aired on Juneteenth and is available to stream on The HISTORY® Channel app, history.com, and across major TV providers’ VOD platforms.
18 giu 2024 · Despite his conflicted feelings about his last win, Jesse Owens became the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, a record that would stand until 1984. And his victories stood in the face of the smug Nazi sentiment about Aryan racial superiority.
21 ore fa · Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics director Andre Gaines talked to Multichannel News about the significance of Owens’ Olympics triumph and its relevance to a new generation of viewers. Gaines, who is developing a film about the late ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, also talks about the burgeoning sports documentary film genre in the interview, an lightly edited version of which appears below.
14 giu 2024 · The track-and-field competition starred American Jesse Owens, who won three individual gold medals and a fourth as a member of the triumphant U.S. 4 × 100-meter relay team.
19 giu 2024 · "Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics" premieres Wednesday night on History and portrays the complete story before, during and after Owens won four gold medals in 1936.
