JEREMY SCHAAP (Author, "Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens in Hitler's Olympics"): He wasn't celebrated to the extent that he would later be, because people tend to be nostalgic. In fact, Owens really didn't get his due until 1955. Owens won four gold medals and set three Olympic records at the Berlin games, and his achievements shattered Adolf Hitler's assertions of Aryan supremacy.ĮSPN author and anchor Jeremy Schaap debunks a few of the myths surrounding Jesse Owens in his new book "Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics." When we spoke to him from our studios in New York this past week, Schaap said that although Owens became an international celebrity after the 1936 Olympics, he had to struggle to support himself and his family. Some 70 years after the 1936 Summer Olympics, the extraordinary performance of Jesse Owens lives on.
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