PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who ... the zip code with the lowest life expectancy includes parts of South Phoenix at 71 years old. In Scottsdale, data shows the life ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing ... Baker wrote in his 1986 book “Jesse Owens: An American Life.” Owens also was angered that Roosevelt hadn’t congratulated any ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

CLEVELAND — He was fast, n his day the fastest in the world. A Cleveland man who could outrun the wind, or so it seemed. In this Olympic Games year, there is always a look back with a nod of ...

Track and field athlete Jesse Owens ... years old, Owens moved with his family to Cleveland, where the young “J.C.” discovered a world far different than the slower, Southern life he’d ...

Broadcast to coincide with Juneteenth, “Triumph: Jesse Owens and ... thrilling footage of Owens’s four gold-medal-winning races as well as an examination of his life as a Black American ...

But, before we watch athletes go for gold in Paris, The History Channel has turned the clock back to the 1936 Summer Games to tell the game-changing story of Jesse Owens and his historical ...