The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann "Luz" Long. Owens' ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin Sports Minister Iris Spranger on Tuesday said ...

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 3, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won ...

When Jesse Owens returned to the United States after his stunning performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he should’ve been welcomed as a national hero. He’d won four gold medals and captured the ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1936, 23 year-old Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in the 100 meter sprint, defeating the theories of a master race by the Nazi regime ...

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper who won four gold medals at the politically charged 1936 Berlin Olympics. And yet his greatest day as an athlete was May 25, 1935, when ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — From Jesse Owens ...