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The Jesse Owens Story is a 1984 American two-part, four-hour made-for-television biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Jul 9, 1984 · The Jesse Owens Story: Directed by Richard Irving. With Dorian Harewood, Georg Stanford Brown, Debbi Morgan, Barry Corbin. This is the compelling story of Jesse Owens, a man who overcame racial barriers to become one of history's greatest Olympic athletes by disproving Adolf Hitler's theory of Aryan athletic superiority through his success in ...
Jesse Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. Jesse Owens won no less than four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. In the process, he became one of the most important and memorable Olympic athletes of all time.
5 days ago · Jesse Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama, U.S.—died March 31, 1980, Tucson, Arizona) was an American track-and-field athlete who became one of the sport’s most legendary competitors after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Feb 19, 2016 · For Jesse Owens, the defining moment of his youth—the story he told over and over — revolved around a fibrous bump he noticed on his chest the day after he turned five. At first he thought it...
Set during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, and just three-years before the start of WWII, African American track and field athlete Jesse Owens took the world stage and launched...
Jun 19, 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.
