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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. [3]Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". [4]
The Jesse Owens Story is a 1984 American two-part, four-hour [1] made-for-television [2] biographical film about the black athlete [3] Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood [4] plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more. [5]
Jesse Owens is a 2012 American documentary television film produced and distributed by PBS. It serves as the seventh episode of season 24 of American Experience . Summary
US champion Jesse (James Cleveland) Owens crosses the finish line of the 100m event, that he won, on August 05, 1936 during Olympic Games in Berlin. Grandson of a slave, Owens established six ...
1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany; 1936 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected president, John N. Garner reelected vice president; 1936 - 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 - Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb named to baseball's Hall of Fame; 1937 – Look magazine publishes ...
James was born in Scarborough, a borough of Ontario that later became part of the City of Toronto.He graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute in 2011. The middle child of three boys, he is the younger brother of actor Shamier Anderson, who also plays Jesse Owens’ track rival Eulace Peacock in Race.
July 2024: Jonathan Owens heads to Paris to see Simone Biles become the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history. On July 30, Owens posted a pair of photos on Instagram of him wearing ...
Jesse Owens of the United States won his first gold medal of the Berlin Olympics, equaling the world record of 10.3 seconds in the 100-metre dash. [8]U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull said at a press conference that the government would do all it could to evacuate Americans still in Spain who wanted to leave, but warned that conditions may develop which would make it no longer possible for ...