The K-Rob Collection

Audio Antiques - Jesse Owens, track & field superstar


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Ken Robinson traces the career of Jesse Owens, one of the greatest track and field athletes of all time. The 23 year old African-American achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. Owens is credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy, in the years before World War 2. 

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