Murrow of CBS, on his celebrity interview show Person to Person. In a few minutes, Owens would be talking live on national television with Edward R. As he smoothed out his pencil mustache and slicked back his hair-what little was left of it-a dozen technicians put the finishing touches on what had been an allday job, wiring and lighting the Owens home. central time on September 23, 1955, in a handsome townhouse on Chicago’s South Side, James Cleveland Owens slipped into a tweed jacket and sat down in a straight-backed chair. and his style was flawless-with no sign of extra effort. All Rights Reserved.įor Lester Gottlieb, a consummate grandfather and gentleman Text from LENI RIEFENSTAHL: A MEMOIR © 1993 by Leni Riefenstahl. Olympic Games (11th : 1936: Berlin, Germany) 9. Track and field athletes-United States-Biography. Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ. Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics /Jeremy Schaap. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.
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