Owens received an arguably more valuable award for his performance in Berlin: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Watch Jesse Owens Win ...

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper ... Owens was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 and elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.

Jesse Owens died in 1980, having lived long enough to see some of the changes he had dreamed of. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, and his legacy is now firmly enshrined in ...

For Jesse Owens to do that in that time ... Owens was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, but that honor came 40 years after Berlin. "It's something we likely need to ...

Six weeks after Jesse Owens enjoyed his stunning day of days, accumulating six world records in the space of 45 minutes at ...

He opened the Jesse Owens Dry Cleaning Company with a big ... President Gerald Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave him a Living Legacy Award.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics ... In 1976, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford, and in 1990, a decade after his death from lung cancer ...

PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. But for Gina Hemphill-Strachan, the Medal of Freedom ...

As Jesse Owens soared over the eight-metre mark to ... Owens was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, before his death from lung cancer four years later, aged 66.

Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens ... The gold medal winner married Minnie ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record ... and Malaya to promote physical exercise as well as tout the cause of American freedom and economic opportunity in the developing ...