General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Commercial Motion Picture Films. 1967 - 1978. America's Newsreel Album

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Commercial Motion Picture Films. 1967 - 1978. America's Newsreel Album

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Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980

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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama – died March 31, 1980, Tucson, Arizona) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour, at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan—a ...