In 1936 he won four gold medals at the Olympics in Germany ... (upbeat music) Running made Jesse Owens happy. (mellow music) This replica at the Jesse Owens Memorial Park in Oakville, Alabama ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When Jesse Owens returned from his triumphal performance ... one for each of the gold medals he won in track and field. The trees were gifts of the German Olympic Committee ...

Jesse Owens was born in Oakville in 1913. He was a track star and was the first Black track athlete to win four gold medals in one Olympiad ... in time by visiting a replica of Owens’ childhood ...

One of the most consequential Olympic medals ever awarded is on the auction ... the long jumper who walked arm in arm through the stadium with Jesse Owens to celebrate their triumphs while Adolf ...

Jesse Owens' grandson said his track-legend grandfather's successes at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin were a 'thumb in the eye' to Adolf Hitler on Thursday. To commemorate the 4th of July, and the ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record ... The Cleveland track star gained his greatest fame at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, where he won four gold medals. In the 100- ...

Austrian Archives/Imagno/Getty Images A gifted sprinter, relay racer, and long jumper, Jesse Owens is best known for winning four gold medals in track and field events in the 1936 Summer Olympics ...

Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His incredible achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games ...

Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens ... home four gold medals from the Berlin ...