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Jesse Owens won four Olympic golds — then was paid to campaign against FDR
He bought a new Buick, an 11-room house in Cleveland for his parents and a house for himself, his wife, Ruth, and the first of their three daughters. He opened the Jesse Owens Dry Cleaning Company ...
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10 seconds that defied Hitler
One of his daughters Marlene Owens Rankin now runs the Jesse Owens Foundation helping with art and sport projects across the United States. She says with time her father came to realise the ...
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10 seconds that defied Adolf Hitler
One of his daughters Marlene Owens Rankin now runs the Jesse Owens Foundation helping with art and sport projects across the United States. She says with time her father came to realise the ...